The Most Difficult Time of The Year
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When you are going through grief or loneliness in the Christmas season, it seems like there is no place for you. In this sermon, we look at who our God is in the midst of our grief and who we can be to those who are grieving.
1) The Lord hears you
2) The Lord is near to you
3) The Lord will deliver you
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast. If you'd like more information about our church, |
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| 0:13.6 | Well, this is the first Christmas that our daughter is really aware of Christmas. Like last year |
| 0:18.2 | she was alive for Christmas, this year she's aware of it because she's a little bit over a year and a half, which has put some pressure on my wife and I, because we're like, man, we got to make this the best Christmas ever. We got to start these Christmas traditions because we want to make sure we're not neglecting her. She needs to grow up with some Christmas traditions. So this year we've we started to do something and I know that |
| 0:39.5 | as Christians there's a lot of different views on Santa. But here's what I've learned this these last |
| 0:45.0 | couple weeks. My daughter loves Santa. We didn't try to introduce her to him. It just kind of happened |
| 0:51.4 | because he's all over the place. Like he's in stores. He's at the mall. he's on the TV. We didn't try to introduce her to him. She just came to know him and she loves him. So last Friday, we decided that we were going to make all of her dreams come true. We were going to take her to Magnolia to get her picture with Santa. And we knew exactly how it was going to go. |
| 1:11.3 | Because once we told her that we were going to go take a picture with Santa, we put her in the car, |
| 1:14.8 | the whole drive over there, she just kept saying, Santa, Santa, Santa, she was wearing a Santa |
| 1:19.7 | shirt and, like, this was truly going to make her dreams come true. |
| 1:22.2 | And we knew what was going to happen. |
| 1:23.8 | We were going to stand in the line, get up to meet Santa, and she was gonna be overjoyed. |
| 1:28.3 | Like she was gonna give him a hug, |
| 1:30.3 | she was gonna smile big, and we'd have a picture |
| 1:32.3 | to last a lifetime. |
| 1:34.3 | And we got in the line, went to Santa, |
| 1:37.3 | and here's how the picture turned out. |
| 1:42.3 | Like, this is not at all how I thought it would go. |
| 1:45.8 | I was holding her, and once I got up to Santa, she went like full-on koala on me. |
| 1:50.7 | Like, she would not let me peel her off me to give her to him. |
| 1:55.1 | And once I finally got rid of her, she was more panic than she's ever been in her entire life. |
| 2:02.8 | That is not how we thought it would go. |
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