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Sermon 2
The Star: A Journey of Love
[Show Love Bumper video.]
Isa.
7:10-1
in your church will be doing the lessons based on the major motion picture The
Star, you may also want to show the weekly movie clip for the whole
Prayer
congregation to enjoy together.]
Introduction:
Advent is an amazing season and so we use these weeks leading up to Christmas as
as we journey together toward Christmas.
As we began our Advent season last
week, we talked a little bit about the word advent, which is a version of a Latin
term meaning “coming.”
And so we use these weeks leading up to Christmas as
a chance to look forward with great expectation to the coming of Christ as we
embark on a journey of hope, love, joy, and peace.
We are taking into account the importance of the star.
It was a star that led people to Jesus, just as the star leads us to Jesus this Advent season.
beacon and a guide to the newly arrived Messiah, Jesus.
We talked a bit last
week about the biblical account of the star.
It receives a more central role in
Christmas pageants than it got in the Gospel accounts of the Christmas story.
But despite its brief biblical appearance, it was a star that led people to Jesus,
just as the star leads us to Jesus this Advent season.
So together we continue to look for the light as we follow the star on this
journey of love.
The star signals:
the brightest love
the love that never gives up
the love that conquered sin and death
the love that surrounds us daily and fills us eternally.
us eternally.
Perfect love.
God’s love embodied.
Perfect love.
God’s love embodied.
As we think on love this morning let me ask you a few questions and see a show of hands:
questions and see a show of hands: How many of you are finished with all your
How many of you are finished with all your Christmas shopping?
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How many of you haven’t even started?
Christmas shopping?
How many of you haven’t even started?
How many of you
How many of you plan to just skip the whole shopping thing and go straight to the Christmas dinner?
plan to just skip the whole shopping thing and go straight to the Christmas
dinner?
Well, wherever you stand on Christmas gift shopping and giving,
we spend a lot of money on Christmas.
Retail sales from November 2016
through January 2017 in the U.S. was $1 trillion!
But while that number is a bit mind-blowing, here is another fun number
for you: $60 billion.
That’s how much Americans spent on their pets last year.
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Which leaves me with one question: Why?!?!
Don’t get me wrong—I love a cat, dog, fish, or lizard as much as the next person, but $60 billion!?!
dog, fish, or lizard as much as the next person, but $60 billion!?!
For animals that
For animals that really just cause a lot of trouble—we walk them, clean up after them, vacuum up the hair, take allergy pills, clean the tank, apologize to the neighbors . . .
Really, our pets should be paying us.
But we love them, so we spend our hard-earned money and time caring for them.
It’s not because of anything they’ve done for us, but simply because we love them.
really just cause a lot of trouble—we walk them, clean up after them, vacuum up
the hair, take allergy pills, clean the tank, apologize to the neighbors . . .
Really,
our pets should be paying us.
But we love them, so we spend our hard-earned
money and time caring for them.
It’s not because of anything they’ve done for us,
but simply because we love them.
Okay, I admit this is not an exact comparison.
(Please don’t leave here
thinking that I’m telling you God loves us like we love our dogs.)
But the example does start us down the path of recognizing some things about love.
does start us down the path of recognizing some things about love.
As we do, let me ask you to consider several questions:
How do you perceive God’s love for you?
perceive God’s love for you?
Do you feel you need to earn it?
Do you wonder if
Do you feel you need to earn it?
Do you wonder if God’s love is meant for you?
God’s love is meant for you?
Do you see the overflow of God’s love in your own
Do you see the overflow of God’s love in your own life toward others?
life toward others?
This morning lets look at the love of God, that love caused Him to enter our world through His Son that first Christmas.
This love was present from the creation of the world and it is enough for each and everyone of us and is meant to overflow in our lives.
https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/industry/retail-distribution/holiday-retail-sales-consumer-
survey.html?id=us:2em:3na:holiday:dup3524:awa:cip:102616;
Bryan Pearson, “Holiday Spending to
Exceed $1 Trillion—And 11 Other Surprising Data Points of Christmas,” Forbes.com,
December 22,
2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanpearson/2016/12/22/holiday-spending-to-exceed-1-
trillion-and-11-other-surprising-data-points-of-christmas/#6a5853ee247f.
2 Michelle Castillo, “Americans Will Spend More Than $60 Billion on Their Pets This Year,”
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