Thanks for joining us here at Life Church, where we are one church meeting in multiple locations

and reaching around the world with the help of church online. If you have any questions,

do you like to learn more about us as a church? You can always check us out online simply by going

to life.church or you can stay connected throughout the week and everywhere you go with the all-new

Life Church app available wherever you download your apps from. You know it's Christmas time,

a time that is filled with great memories, but for many of us, we seem to be haunted by the

mistakes we've made in our past and those memories keep coming up. But those memories don't have to

linger. In fact, there's freedom in Christ and today our senior pastor Craig Rochelle will help us

find that freedom in part two of the Ghost of Christmas Past. Will it's great to have all of you

with us today at all of our Life Churches, our open network churches, our church online family?

We're actually today in part two of a three-part message series called Ghosts of Christmas Past.

We're talking about some of the painful things that often emerge this time of the year and we're

letting God's words speak to those painful things in a very real way. In fact, next week I want to

tell you is my favorite of all three weeks. We're going to talk about overcoming the labels that tend

to bind us if you've owned internally an outward label that becomes a ceiling in your life.

Next week I believe is a message that could impact so so many lives. Today I got to warn you.

It's going to be a little bit heavy, so I want to just tell you on the front side, be prepared.

We're going to talk about the deeply painful emotion known as shame. What's so interesting is

this time of year around Christmas time in the holidays a lot of people seem to battle shame

from the past even more than other times of the year. In fact, I call shame this. I describe it this

way. Shame is a so crushing identity warping emotion. It's a so crushing identity warping emotion.

In fact, I bet most of you if you think back in your childhood you can probably remember

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