December 24, 2020
Luke 2:1-20
Christmas Eve:
"The Same Old Story?"
We worship together united by the Spirit of God present with each of us.
The Christmas Eve sermon is one of the most difficult sermons for me to conjure up because you have already heard everything that I am going to say. I want to say something profound and meaningful about the birth of Jesus on Christmas Eve and to tell the story of the birth of God’s son in a new and creative way, but the reality is the story of the night that God came to us in the form of a newborn baby boy that was named Jesus does not change---though, perhaps it changes us. - Dr. Jim Everette
WE RESPOND THROUGH PRAYER
O Holy One, heavenly angels spoke to earthly shepherds and eternity entered time in the child of Bethlehem. Through the telling of the Christmas story, let our temporal lives be caught up in the eternal in that same child, that we might join shepherds and all the heavenly hosts in praising the coming of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. 
Silent Night

Silent night, holy night; All is calm, all is bright
'Round yon virgin Mother and Child; Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven afar; Heavenly hosts sing Al-le-lu-ia!
Christ the Savior is born! Christ the Savior is born!

Silent night, holy night; Son of God, oh, love's pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face; With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord at Thy birth, Jesus, Lord at Thy birth.