If your December is a tug-of-war between cozy tradition and meaningful faith, you’ll feel right at home here. We start with playful table topics—fast food standing in for Christmas dinner, real versus fake trees, and scent hacks that make the living room smell like a forest—and quickly weave those moments into what holds a church family together: gathering, giving, and the good news at the center of it all.
We map the month with practical stops along the way. A family gingerbread night turns into a community touchpoint, our final midweek meal offers warmth during a busy week, and Country Christmas brings music, stories, and a biscuit fellowship that tastes like memory. We zoom out to the global church through the International Mission Board Week of Prayer, using prayer guides to connect real names and needs to our daily rhythms. Then we talk generosity with the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering—100% to international missions—and the March to the Manger that embodies a simple truth: we bring gifts because grace found us first.
The heartbeat of the conversation is the gospel itself. Through 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 3, we unpack God’s righteousness, our sin, and the beauty of justification by grace. Redemption is the price Christ paid; propitiation is the wrath he bore; faith is how we receive what we could never earn. That message reframes the season. It frees us to laugh about fries and ornaments, to show up for one another, and to give with joy because our deepest need has already been met by a Savior who does not change when the calendar turns.
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