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[1675.18 --> 1705.16] Thank you.
[1705.18 --> 1708.28] Fires, floods, funerals, and fear.
[1709.86 --> 1714.72] Families split in ideology, distance, controversy, and border closures.
[1715.66 --> 1719.14] Elders imprisoned in care homes as well as in their own bodies.
[1720.12 --> 1723.98] The nightly news erupts into our protected, isolated space.
[1724.74 --> 1731.98] Protests, wars, famines, earthquakes, government overspending, deficits, debts, inflation.
[1731.98 --> 1739.54] Conflicting voices on social media echo in our ears amidst the daily COVID count.
[1741.06 --> 1745.24] Neighboring cities had drive-by shootings as we had drive-by birthdays.
[1746.34 --> 1751.32] Yet amidst the mayhem and the masking, the isolation and the weariness,
[1752.26 --> 1756.92] another voice long remembered echoes through the chaos of the years.
[1757.80 --> 1759.72] The voice of one who knows.
[1761.06 --> 1764.18] One who was born into a world of chaos and weariness.
[1765.16 --> 1767.94] His voice still speaks with comforting clarity.
[1769.02 --> 1772.12] And so, we celebrate his coming once again.
[1772.88 --> 1776.48] His coming into a broken world and into broken hearts.
[1776.48 --> 1783.12] He stills our anxiousness with words that carry on into eternity.
[1784.50 --> 1785.86] Peace I leave with you.
[1786.14 --> 1787.74] My peace I give to you.
[1788.34 --> 1790.52] I do not give to you as the world gives.
[1791.40 --> 1793.52] Do not let your hearts be troubled.
[1794.02 --> 1795.54] And do not be afraid.
[1795.54 --> 1795.70] Thank you.
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[1965.44 --> 1972.10] basic nursing, a mobile library, prayer and loving community contact. The continuum of care includes
[1972.10 --> 1978.06] ongoing registered Christian counseling with sliding scale fees, men's and women's support
[1978.06 --> 1983.50] groups, Bible studies, extreme weather response, a clothing ministry and much more. More recently,
[1983.50 --> 1988.12] Night Shift has extended their service to outreach in the Langley area. Our church has committed,
[1988.12 --> 1993.04] our church, referring to us, has committed to serving the people of Langley every second month.
[1993.04 --> 1998.74] We currently serve 50 to 60 people a hot meal along with snacks and friendly conversation.
[1998.74 --> 2003.48] If you would like more information on how to get involved, please contact me. We thank you for
[2003.48 --> 2004.38] your donations today.
[2023.04 --> 2037.48] God of all creation, here with us in a starlit manger, Emmanuel.
[2037.48 --> 2051.48] God of all creation, here with us in a starlit manger, Emmanuel.
[2051.48 --> 2054.98] God of all creation, he has nothing to hold.
[2054.98 --> 2080.28] Amen, the lebihrea and blaerіль to
[2080.28 --> 2095.28] Worship Christ the Lord, that all that is within us adore.
[2095.28 --> 2108.28] Wives and bring their treasures, shepherds bow along.
[2108.28 --> 2116.28] Angels' voices sing of peace on earth,
[2116.28 --> 2126.28] And have I to offer to heaven's King?
[2126.28 --> 2135.28] I will bring my life, my love, my heart.
[2135.28 --> 2147.28] Adore, come let us adore, come let us adore.
[2147.28 --> 2158.28] Hail the Lord, worship Christ the Lord,
[2158.28 --> 2170.28] That all that is within us adore.
[2170.28 --> 2181.28] Angels sing praises, ring to the newborn King.
[2181.28 --> 2186.28] Peace on earth, here with us, joy awakening.
[2186.28 --> 2191.28] At your feet we fall.
[2191.28 --> 2196.28] Angels sing praises, ring to the newborn King.
[2196.28 --> 2201.28] Peace on earth, here with us, joy awakening.
[2201.28 --> 2205.28] At your feet we fall.
[2205.28 --> 2212.28] Adore, come let us adore.
[2212.28 --> 2219.28] O come let us adore Him.
[2219.28 --> 2227.28] The Lord, worship Christ the Lord,
[2227.28 --> 2240.28] Let all that is within us adore.
[2240.28 --> 2245.28] O come let us adore.
[2245.28 --> 2246.28] Morning.
[2246.28 --> 2266.28] We're gonna spend some time hearing again, or maybe for the first time, the Christmas story.
[2266.28 --> 2271.18] We're going to read that in our Bibles from Matthew chapter 1.
[2271.78 --> 2280.88] I'm going to read verse 18 through 24, Matthew's quick Christmas story there.
[2280.96 --> 2282.24] It's going to be on the screen behind me.
[2282.32 --> 2283.22] You can probably see it already.
[2283.70 --> 2289.36] I encourage you, if you have a Bible, to have that in your hands, open, on your device or whatever,
[2289.66 --> 2296.10] and you can read along there and then keep it with you as we come into the text.
[2296.28 --> 2302.10] With the text open in front of you, let's pray together.
[2305.08 --> 2312.42] Holy God, Heavenly Father, speak now your Christmas words to us.
[2313.70 --> 2325.58] Speak now the hope, the love, the joy, and the peace that you might bring into the chaos of our lives.
[2327.10 --> 2331.88] Speak now with your voice that we might hear you in this word.
[2332.60 --> 2335.98] That we might go from here today praising your name,
[2336.76 --> 2341.40] joining our voice with the angels, with all of creation, with the shepherds of old,
[2341.90 --> 2345.16] singing your worth and majesty.
[2345.16 --> 2349.94] Take your word and plant it deep in our hearts.
[2350.06 --> 2351.46] In Jesus' name we pray.
[2352.36 --> 2352.68] Amen.
[2352.68 --> 2352.76] Amen.
[2360.50 --> 2365.60] This is how the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, came about.