Home For The Holidays – Christmas Eve | Pastor Erwin McManus

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas, Mosaic! Pastor Erwin McManus sits down on Christmas Eve and explores the often forgotten role of Joseph during the birth of Jesus. Pastor Erwin highlights how Joseph's place in the Christmas story can mirror our own—how in the middle of God's work in the world we can find ourselves inconvenienced or forgotten, yet we have the ability to chose the future that God has for us.

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"Home For The Holidays - Christmas Eve" message given by Erwin McManus, recorded in the McManus home.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast. Thank you for joining us today.
0:15.4	I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you, and that this is
0:20.5	just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus.
0:24.0	Enjoy the message.
0:26.2	Merry Christmas everyone.
0:31.2	It's been such a joy to have you in our home during home for the
0:33.9	holidays and and Kim and I want to just really express to you our appreciation for
0:39.2	you, our love for you and and and how our prayers are being sent out for you that you would have this extraordinary
0:47.6	realization of how you're valued and cared for.
0:51.5	It's a beautiful thing when you take hold of this unbelievable
0:56.0	concept that God actually cares about us, that God sees us and he thinks about us
1:02.3	that we're on his mind and maybe even more importantly on his
1:05.5	heart in that somehow and I know it sounds incredulous and it goes beyond our wildest comprehension but this declaration that God so passionately loved
1:19.7	us that he would step into human history that he would take on flesh and blood that he would walk among us live a beautiful
1:26.7	perfect sinless life that he would carry the name Jesus because it would remind us forever of why he came to be our savior, to save us
1:36.7	from ourselves, from our despair, from our loneliness, from our
1:45.0	pain, our lones, our fear, from our brokenness and our pain.
1:47.3	And it's this incredible moment on Christmas Eve
1:52.0	where we get to pause and realize that the greatest gift
1:55.5	we will ever receive in our lives is the gift that God gave of himself through
2:00.5	his son Jesus as a sacrifice on our behalf. I want to take a moment and go back to
2:05.1	Luke chapter 2 and I just read the first seven verses together. I know that we're
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