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Advent – The Coming of Jesus

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For centuries, believers around the world have used the weeks leading up to Christmas to prepare themselves for celebrating the birth of Jesus and awaiting His Second Coming. The Advent season begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and concludes on Christmas Day. The whole point of Advent is to spend several weeks – four weeks, to be exact – preparing for Christmas.

Advent, from the Latin word meaning “coming” or “arrival,” is the traditional celebration of the first advent of Jesus born in a stable and the anxious awaiting of His second advent in glory.  The focus of the season is a time for remembering and rejoicing, watching and waiting.

Video Driven Advent Bible Study

Eastwood Tulsa has made RightNow Media, the Netflix of Bible study, available for free to all our members. As a church-wide focus on the coming of Christ, you will be studying on your own, with your family, or in your small groups Matt Chandler’s sermon series, Advent, on RightNow Media, beginning December 1st, 2019.

Schedule and Study Guide

Advent – The Coming of Jesus is a five-part sermon series from Matt Chandler, Pastor of The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas.

December 1st – Part 1: A History of Darkness and Depravity
December 8th – Part 2: Rescue
December 15th – Part 3: Forgiveness
December 22nd – Part 4: New Hearts and Lives
December 25th – Part 5: All Things New

Study Guides are available in the foyer or are available for download below.
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How to Subscribe to RightNow Media

You can get your free access at https://eastwoodtulsa.org/rightnow, inside the Eastwood Tulsa App, or by texting “RightNow EWBC” to 41411. Here is the link to the study >> https://www.rightnowmedia.org/Content/Series/1308

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Advent Adventure: The Shepherds

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In all the Christmas hubbub, don’t forget about Advent.  That’s the four Sundays before Christmas when we focus on events of Jesus’ birth.  We’ve already looked at Prophecy and how Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem.  This Sunday we focus on the shepherds.  Have you ever wondered what it was like on the fields outside of Bethlehem that night?

It had been a busy day for Nathan and the other shepherds.  Finally, the day was done and the flock was settled down for the night.  After supper, he laid down by the fire and soon was fast asleep.

Suddenly, something woke him up.  When he opened his eyes, he was blinded by a dazzling bright light.  What was happening?  Was this an attack?  Then, he began to see that there was something in the bright light… something that looked like an angel!  Then, he heard a loud voice say, “Do not be afraid.  I have great news for everyone.  Today, in the town of Bethlehem, a Savior has been born for you.  He is Christ the Lord.  You will find a baby lying in a manger.”  Suddenly, the whole sky exploded in light as thousands of angels streaked through the skies over Bethlehem.  They began praising God,  “Glory to God in the highest,” they said, “ and on earth peace to men of good will. ”  It was the most glorious thing Nathan had ever seen or heard.

All too soon, they were gone and the sky was empty and black.  The shepherds looked at each other in wonder.  “Let’s go see what the angel was talking about.”, they said.  They left their flocks, which is very “unshepherdish”, and ran to Bethlehem.  There, they found the stable with Mary and Joseph and the baby in a manger just as the angel had said.  In awe they knelt down before the baby in the manger and worshiped him.  As they left Bethlehem, they told everyone what they had seen and heard that night.

Later, Nathan realized how amazing it was that God had sent His angels to shepherds!  Shepherds!… the poorest, smelliest, most disrespected bunch of folks in Israel!  Yet, God chose them to be the first to hear His great news.  What Nathan didn’t understand was that everyone is equally important to God!  It is no different today.

“When we were utterly helpless with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for Him.”  Romans 5:6 (The Living Bible)

 

-Lujean