Youth Pastor
Rest in Peace: Christmas’ Calming Conquest
His Place Community Church
https://www.hisplacechurch.com
Christmas is our annual reminder that “what is” true has already defeated all our “what if” worries.
Youth Pastor
Christmas is our annual reminder that “what is” true has already defeated all our “what if” worries.
We choose our actions, but truth decides our consequences. Just as we can choose to board a bus, but we don’t decide where it goes.
We need to make sure our heart isn’t yielding to tainted love, but rather guided by God into true love.
Tested words make trusted people. And when the input of others leads us deeper into our relationship with God, we can trust their guidance as “tried and true.”
In the story, three Grey Town ghosts are challenged to change by letting go of their Grey Town attachments and embracing their new life in Heaven.
The common thread that keeps people off Lewis’s metaphorical bus begins to emerge: sin finds a way to hold people from pursuing Heaven.
Nothing gives purpose to today like the promise of tomorrow, and the better our expectations the greater our excitement.
Whether Christian or secular, we’re defined by the qualities of our character that stay the same despite the situation.
We’re motivated to pursue what we love and avoid what we fear. But God can seem like both a reward and a threat.