Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Merry Christmas from the Grounded Youth

Advent: God With Us from The Village Church on Vimeo.

Incarnation - The act of God the Son whereby He took to Himself a human nature. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God." Luke 1:35. Amidst all of the chaos during the Christmas season, it can be hard to keep focused on Christ, the real reason for the season. Here is a link to a great message from Covenant Life pastor Joshua Harris on the Incarnation that will help in your efforts to keep Christ central during the holidays. Click here http://www.covlife.org/resources/2671303-With_Us_to_Save_Us From the Grounded Youth Team O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds, and enlarge my mind; Let me hear good tidings of great joy, and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, and adore, my conscience bather in an ocean of repose, my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father; place me with ox, ass, camel, goat, to look with them upon my Redeemer’s face, and in him account myself delivered from sin; let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart, embrace him with undying faith, exulting that he is mine and I am his. In him thou has given me so much that heaven can give no more. - from The Valley of Vision - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, Did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, But made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant Being made in human likeness. Philippians 2:5-7 Here's a great book by author Nancy Guthrie I recommend as well.