Does Your Life Glorify Christ
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Pastor John Elmore reminded the church to grasp the gravity of Christmas, that Jesus, fully God and fully man, humbled Himself to come for us. He called listeners to receive Christ as the servant who willingly came to die and save sinners. Finally, he challenged believers to live transformed lives that glorify Jesus in everything we do and offering back to Him all that He has first given us.
Do you grasp the gravity of Christ?
Have you received the gift of Christ?
How will your life glorify Christ?
Life Group Discussion:
What practices or rhythms help you slow down and truly reflect on the significance of the incarnation?
Is there anything that makes it hard for you to ask Jesus for help or surrender control to Him?
This week, what is one practical way you can “play your best for Him” in your everyday life?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Probably like 25, 26 years ago, I don't even know what. I was working at an ad agency in Austin, |
| 0:06.2 | Texas, and I received this invitation to my first ever, didn't know what it was, had no conception |
| 0:12.7 | of what it was, invitation to a baby shower. And like, that's the weirdest thing in the world. |
| 0:19.7 | Like, you're inviting me to come watch you wash your kid. Like, I go to happy hours. I don't go to baby showers. I don't even know what that is. And come to find out, you shower the baby with gifts. So I was like, oh, man, okay, what do you do for that? I guess you go to babies R Us. So I drive, I go, I pick |
| 0:38.9 | something off the shelf that I had enough money for, just stick in my car, and I drive to the |
| 0:45.0 | place. I'm sure it was like, you know, full of BPA and totally inappropriate. I didn't |
| 0:50.0 | know what I was doing. There I arrive, and I'm sitting in my car. I can see myself still |
| 0:54.5 | parallel parked on the street. It was at someone's house. The baby showers for Kristen Knight, |
| 0:59.0 | she and Mark's first child. And everyone's walking in, and I'm like, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. |
| 1:06.9 | Like, panic sets in because I see people, like, you you know hit the latch on their suburban and they |
| 1:12.4 | they pull out their gift which has balloons attached and and they're walking it in like elaborate wrap |
| 1:19.9 | their wrapping costs more than my gift other people like pop the trunk they pull it out and then |
| 1:25.8 | they've got like this you you know, 72 pack of diapers |
| 1:28.6 | with their gift, a teddy bear wrapped to it, maybe a onesie draped off. It was like so, |
| 1:35.0 | so elaborate, and I've just got my gift, like whatever it is, Graco, something unbar, unwrapped, |
| 1:42.5 | just the gift. Sounds like, I know what to do. So I take my |
| 1:47.7 | black Patagonia quarter-zip fleece off, stick the gift in the fleece, like that was my |
| 1:54.4 | wrapping, and I like walk up and I place it under the tree. It was this baby shower at Christmas. |
| 2:00.9 | So all the gifts there under the tree. |
| 2:03.4 | I thought I was being super nonchalant. |
| 2:05.3 | Well, everybody was being at the party was very chalant. |
| 2:09.0 | They're like opening the gifts one by one. |
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