2023-12-31: Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas — Christmas All Year Long

Sermon Audio: Christmas All Year Long
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Matthew 2:13-23
Duration: 22:33
Size: 15.4 MB

Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas
Christmas All Year Long
Matthew 2:13-23

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we would take the spirit of Christmas with us all through the year?

Christmas is wonderful, and then plop, it’s face to face with reality once again?

As he thought about the Christ-child lying in a manger, he took off his tattered coat and laid it on the altar.

Our homes are important because it is at home that we not only talk about love and trust, but we learn to live with love and trust.

But what a difference it would make if we did take Christ into the marketplace, into the workplace, to school, and wherever we go–and not just leave Him in the manger.

But Jesus in our lives is the one thing that makes all the difference–that gives us a solid foundation, the strength to endure, and even to overcome.

May the songs of peace and goodwill be in our hearts forever.

2023-12-24: Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas — Born to Be a Priest

Sermon Audio: Born to Be a Priest
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Hebrews 2:14-17
Duration: 19:37
Size: 13.4 MB

Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas
Born to Be a Priest
Hebrews 2:14-17

Now the past 4 weeks we’ve focusing on Jesus having been born to be our Mediator, our Sanctifier, our Savior and our Redeemer. And all of those were tied into…Christ’s death on the cross.

God is holy and righteous, and (because of our sins) we’re not! And that created a problem.

But, the blood (placed on the Mercy Seat) covered the sins of the people for the year, so that Israel could continue to be in God’s presence.

His blood has cleansed our hearts. And now, when you and I pray to God we enter into God’s very throne room.

But Jesus became our High Priest so He could destroy death. Jesus came so we wouldn’t have to be afraid of death anymore.

2023-12-17: Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas — The Gift That Redeems

Sermon Audio: The Gift That Redeems
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 2:36-38, Galatians 4:4-7
Duration: 27:04
Size: 18.5 MB

Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas
The Gift That Redeems
Luke 2:36-38, Galatians 4:4-7

God described that gift in detail so that, when Jesus came, over 300 prophecies described who He was, and what He was to do.

Well, my first thought was that it meant that Jesus’ blood has bought us. And while that’s true…but it’s more than that.

Redemption literally means to “buy something back.”

But the Bible tells you that’s not true. You are valuable; You do have a purpose; You have a reason to exist.

God formed us; Sin deformed us; But…Jesus transforms us.

Christ’s gift on the cross, cost Jesus everything, but it really didn’t cost us anything.

2023-12-10: Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas — The Gift of the Sanctifying Savior

Sermon Audio: The Gift of the Sanctifying Savior
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: I Corinthians 6:9-11
Duration: 25:01
Size: 17.1 MB

Jesus Is Everything to Me Christmas
The Gift of the Sanctifying Savior
I Corinthians 6:9-11

Sanctification means–we’ve been “set apart.”
We’ve been set apart from the world to protect us from damage.

You see, God loves you…but He hates sin.

God declares: you and I had all sinned. No one is righteous before God.

So, sanctification is the process Jesus set in motion when we became Christians.

They’re more than happy to let God do what He does, just as long as they don’t have to do anything about it themselves.

And even though we may believe “we’re adults” and can handle the smell of worldly things in our lives that smell will still remain.

Like the shepherds and the wisemen, we need to leave the world behind and come bow before Jesus.