Calvary Bible Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan

51:55 minutes (8.92 MB)

At the first Christmas, God gave the only gift everyone really needs.

Each Christmas, as we open God's Word and remember the greatest event since Creation, we have an opportunity to reset our minds on the real message from God for this season in our lives.

As we open to Luke 1:78-79 pause and think about how far we have come from the First Christmas.
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53:21 minutes (9.17 MB)

As we open to Luke 2:36, and are introduced to the life of Anna, I’d ask you to underline two words in your mind. First, in v. 36 “she was of great age”—underline in your mind OLD. Second, in v. 37 “a widow of about 84 years”—underline in your mind ALONE.

There you go, in two words you could describe the woman we are going to meet this morning. Anna was OLD and ALONE.

Yet from this account God gives to us, this old and alone woman was also vibrant, filled with joy, overflowing with God's Word and in love with the Lord.
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46:54 minutes (10.74 MB)

Christmas was when the greatest event since Creation, took place in a sleepy little village just five miles south of Jerusalem. But the lives of most people surrounding Christ's birth were like the rooms of Bethlehem’s Inn—too full to let Jesus in.

Christmas is all about worship; and worship is all about having room in your life for God. (Read More)

53:25 minutes (24.45 MB)

Christmas is the record of God using a team of ordinary people to do extraordinary works for His Glory, and that is what we see first in the lives of the first couple we meet named Zachariah & Elisabeth as we open to Luke 1:5.

They were ordinary people, lived with ordinary problems, faced with all the ordinary troubles, stresses and pains of life. When we meet them they even had an ordinary response to God-mixed belief and unbelief. (Read More)

47:49 minutes (21.89 MB)

Here is a sobering thought from the Christmas story-there were a group of very good, and very religious people in Christ's day-who missed Heaven by only 18 inches.

Can you imagine how horrible it would be to miss eternal life with God in the place He is making for us, and instead spend eternity in the blackness of darkness, suffering the searing pain of eternal fire?

This morning as we turn to Matthew 2:1-6, we are asking the sobering question, "How close can someone get to Christ, and His gift of salvation, and not be saved?" (Read More)

51:48 minutes (23.72 MB)

The story of Christmas came to us from the God of Heaven. He wrote it down in the Scriptures through His Apostles in just 150 verses (30 in Matthew and 120 in Luke; Mark and John have no birth of Christ passages). Only God captured this event and transmits it to us flawlessly-so we get exactly what He wants us to know, and that has a special:

Message of Seven Words

First, have you noticed what is first in God's story of Christmas? If you look closely, the Christmas Story begins each time it was written in God's Word-with the same seven words. Have you pondered them? (Read More)

52:10 minutes (23.88 MB)

Simeon is introduced to us by God in Luke 2:25-35, and if it wasn't for that introduction, he would be like untold billions of others throughout human history that were only know by those closest to them during their lives; and who died without leaving a trace.

Even God hadn't added him to the Biblical record, and even if we had never read about Simeon, what he was will last forever. Simeon was an Old Testament saint, who lived in hope waiting for the coming Christ by faith; and died in faith ready to go when ever God's time came. Ready to go, what a way we all should live (Read More)