My Best Yes
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When we look at the story of Mary and Joseph, we are reminded that obedience does not always come with clarity, comfort, or ease. But obedience places us right in the middle of God’s redemptive work and his plans for our lives. Their story shows us that our best response to God is often a simple yes, even when it does not make sense, even when it costs us, and even when waiting makes it harder. In this message, Pastor Andy Wood invites us to see Christmas as a story still being written and to consider how our ‘yes’ to God shapes who we become and the chapters God is writing in our lives today. As Christmas approaches, we are each invited to ask ourselves. What might God do if I offered him my best yes?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new messages every week, and I hope you enjoy today's message. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.2 | Today we are in the second week of a message series called Stories of Christmas. |
| 0:28.3 | Can we say that together? |
| 0:30.5 | Stories of Christmas. |
| 0:34.3 | And I always feel a little bit conflicted at this time of year. |
| 0:36.7 | Do I say Merry Christmas all December? |
| 0:37.8 | Do you guys ever feel like that? |
| 0:39.5 | Like, am I supposed to say Merry Christmas? |
| 0:41.6 | We say it all December here at Saddleback. |
| 0:42.8 | Merry Christmas. |
| 0:49.2 | And the reason why is because we are rejoicing over the fact that God has come from heaven to earth, and we get to celebrate. |
| 0:51.3 | And all of this leads us to Christmas. |
| 0:53.6 | In fact, we're like a week away from our Christmas services. I'm so excited about what God's going to do. I'm also excited about a friend of mine that I've been praying for and inviting to church for about three years now. He said he's going to come to Christmas services. So I'm thrilled about that. And I know there's somebody in your life that God wants to use you to impact. |
| 1:12.4 | See, God is writing this bigger story, and he's inviting us into that story. |
| 1:17.7 | And that's why we're doing this series. |
| 1:19.5 | And that's also why at the end of our message today, we're going to be celebrating with |
| 1:23.7 | our Dream Now year-end offering. |
| 1:25.4 | And we've been talking about this for a few weeks now. I just want to give you a heads up. Many of you have been praying and come prepared to participate. But my hope is that all of us would be stirred to join in this offering, which is really an act of worship back to God at the end of the year, just reflecting and saying, God, we're thank you, thank you, God, for all that you've done. We're grateful for your faithfulness throughout the course of this year. And also, |
| 1:48.4 | another reason why we're doing this dream now year-end offering is to make a difference. And there's |
| 1:53.1 | several big initiatives that we're giving towards above and beyond our regular giving. One is |
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