Online Christmas Experience at Convergence

hey convergence it's pastor jordan and pastor job here and we just wanted to welcome you guys to christmas at home it's gonna be an amazing service online and just get ready get ready get ready hey if you guys are watching we want you right now to take out your phone get it out capture what you're watching and tag us in your stories post it on your grid and enjoy with your family guys here we go we love you guys enjoy we'll see you at the end jesus we just lift our eyes to you right now we give you our hearts we give you our attention this morning would you just come and touch us would you come and speak to us would you just come and be with us right now as we worship you as we love on you today we say that you are worthy we say that you're holy that you're good we love you and we bless your name jesus amen [Music] it [Music] our is savior's birth [Music] a thrill of [Music] [Music] glorious more [Music] your knees [Music] says when christ was born [Music] charlie he taught us [Music] is he shall break for the slave is our brother and in his name all oppression shall cease sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus [Music] christ is the lord [Music] is [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] more [Music] [Applause] [Music] on your knees [Music] said [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] worshiping [Music] your glory fills the skies breaking the darkest night everlasting wondrous one [Music] jesus oh jesus [Music] jesus oh jesus oh jesus jesus oh jesus [Music] is jesus oh name jesus jesus oh jesus [Music] jesus o jesus [Music] stars gaze upon you and mountains [Music] you [Music] [Applause] and mountains there will never be [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus oh jesus jesus oh jesus [Music] jesus oh jesus [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign there was a moment when the lights went out when death claimed its victory [Music] the king love had given up his life the darkest day in history they're on the cross they made for sinners [Music] it was finished but not the end we could have known for the earth began to shake and the veil was torn what sacrifice was made as the heavens oh hell king jesus [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] there was a moment when the sky lit up a flash of light breaking through when all was lost he crossed eternity the key [Music] share [Music] [Applause] jesus lord of heaven and earth [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] world [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus oh of heaven and earth of the world christ the lord [Music] we worship you jesus [Music] [Music] oh come let us a door here oh come let us adore him oh come let us [Music] [Music] our [Music] for you alone are worthy in christ [Music] the lord we give you all we give you all the glory we give you all the glory we give you all the glory [Music] we give you all the glory we give you all the glory the glory just give him glory lift up your voice in your homes and your houses wherever you're at lift up your voice we give you all we give you all the glory we give you [Music] the lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh he cries [Music] [Applause] [Music] worthy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all the honor all the glory all the praise is yours forever [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] forever [Music] [Music] all the glory all the honor all the praise is yours forever all the glory all the honor all the praise yours forever it's yours forever we give you all the glory we give you all the glory we give you all the glory in [Music] the christ one more time we give you all the glory we give you we give you all the glory he christ [Music] christ the lord jesus worthy one we honor you we honor you in every season christ [Music] may jesus we give you all the glory we give you all the honor god [Music] wherever everyone is at god in their homes right now god on their way to work and whatever they're doing god i ask right now for a fresh encounter with you god god i ask that you would give us the strength to lift our eyes up god god has that hope would arise as we declare and we recognize that you alone jesus are seated on the throne high above it all oh jesus we lift our eyes up we lift our eyes up to you god worthy one worthy one worthy one we're joined with heaven singing worthy jesus we love you we exalt you we praise your name we thank you god amen [Music] hey convergence family we're super stoked uh just be doing the christmas at home with you guys this year i know it's a little bit different i know we haven't done it before but i think it's going to be really good and already worship was amazing and so ryan jesse and kaylee just bringing just the presence into your homes and into your households and we just love what they carry and what they're released a little bit about what we're going to do today just as a staff each one of us is going to share just a little bit from our hearts and our families just what christmas means to us or what aspect of christmas really stands out to us each year or specifically this year in 2020 and so it's going to be amazing it's going to be fun we're going to have hannah and andrew are going to have all their kids with them it's going to be super legit and so uh but with that one of the the primary things that i love to focus on when uh when it when it comes to christmas season is just that that god became man just to reconcile us back to him and even just his name emmanuel god with us just that promise that that he's given us that he's never going to leave us never going to forsake us and that in every moment in every season of our soul in every high place and every low place that he is with us in those places in that that's his promise and so i just want to comfort you guys with that with that uh promise that he gave you today that he's with you that even though we're towards the end of 2020 right now and it's been a crazy year that that promise still stands firm today just as it was yesterday and it will be tomorrow so i love you guys just want to encourage you you guys are amazing have an amazing christmas merry christmas all right guys what is your favorite thing about christmas josiah what's your favorite thing that is jesus's birthday yes jesus's birthday samuel what about you buddy celebrate with our family yeah we get to celebrate it's our family that's good mama that is jesus birthday and i like snow you're like no and jesus what about you hope that we share love for everybody that's very good yeah yeah i think one of my favorite things of christmas is just focusing on emmanuel which means god with us as i'm sure you know but just the reality of god becoming a man and humbling himself and coming as a baby and being born for us to die um for our sins so that we can be close to him that's just beautiful yeah that is it is so good to have god with us in because we need more of jesus and uh it's really just in this time the lord's been highlighting to me that he was the light that pierced the darkness and that's in the gospel of john in the first chapter it says that he was the light that came into the darkness and i believe that light is even in the darker places of our lives in the darkness of events in our world but he is the truth he is the life and he's also the light and i think uh when we look around our neighborhoods or even on our christmas tree we see those lights and i just encourage us uh let's remember that those lights are the reflection of and reminder of us as we are to shine our light because the beauty the true gift that of jesus's life is that he now resides in us we have the hope of glory and he is christ that is in us he is the gift of salvation and um i think we all need to remember to shine our light so when you look at your christmas tree remember shine that light just like the tree's blowing up so that's good all right we're just gonna lift our hands yeah we're gonna extend them to you guys and just pray a blessing over you so god we just thank you for every household today god and we just pray a blessing on every family god on every grandparent and parent and child and son and daughter god we just thank you lord for everyone and we pray lord that you would just bless us lord that we would see your beauty this season god and that you would be glorified today and every day and we love you so much jesus and we all say amen and merry christmas merry christmas everybody [Music] hey convergence fam this is aaron caitlin and charlotte here and we just love christmas it's so good to see you and be with you wherever you're at and one of the things we love about christmas is just getting to spend time as a family celebrating jesus yeah we also the thing that we love about spending time with our families is this the generational um way that we can just teach the whole family about who god is who jesus is what he did for us aaron's family and my family both have traditions that we feel really reflect that value in our families and who we are um and we just want to tell you guys about them and if you guys want to adopt them as your own as well that'd be really cool yeah for me guys ever since probably when i was a baby probably younger than charlotte yeah i know crazy huh but um we every christmas eve we'd go to my grandparents house on my mom's side and we would do christmas eve as a family we would eat together have fun that type of thing but then we would all meet in the living room and we would sing christmas carols together and a lot of times my grandma at the piano playing songs we'd all sing together and then before we did anything else my grandpa would sit at his chair grab his bible and we all listen to grandpa as he reads the christmas story from the book of luke and as a kid that's something i always always look forward to and to this day as an adult i don't really remember the things i got year to year but i do remember looking forward to that my grandpa who would say the whole christmas story remind everybody in the room like this is why we celebrate christmas and uh and then after after all that he would grab his santa hat put it on sometimes with a ho ho ho and then he'd declare that he is now papa claus and then he would start handing out gifts and would go into present time like that but we never just jumped into the presents because he wanted us to know what christmas was all about and i'm telling you year to year that was something we looked forward to every time and it just really stuck with me yeah i've been there for that it's really it's a it's a very beautiful moment because literally there's grand babies great grandbabies cousins aunts and uncles all shoved into the living room and we're all just sitting there listening to grandpa jim read the christmas story and even if people are in the family or having a hard time with their faith it's a solid moment every year that they can just be together and listen to the truth which is awesome um it's awesome yeah but then caitlyn's family does something else it's super cool every single year and i've been i've only been a part of the family for like almost six years now but is this something i look forward to it's not on christmas but i'll let her tell it it's like super fun so every year my mom started this when we were really little um every year my mom decided that she was gonna buy an ornament that represented what god did that year and she whether it be the year that someone in our family was really sick and the lord healed them or whether it be the year that we had no money and god couldn't just move people's hearts to send christmas presents so her little kids could have a christmas present um all the different things god did over the years to bless my family and so she would buy an ornament every year that would represent that and every year we would go over the ornaments that were that were the stories that were the testimonies of the years before and then we would end with the current year and what god did for us that year and what he who he was and how faithful he was and just how much he loved us that he would even pursue us like that as a family and as a unit and um it was a really good time for us to reflect and it taught it was also something my mom purposefully did because she wanted to follow the bible she wanted they say you know the bible says tell the generation and let their children's children tell their children and and she wanted us to continue that and to be able to tell our kids what our what the lord did for us growing up and now now as a now we have our own family we've started that so we buy an ornament every year um signifying what the lord has done and we're bringing that into our own family now um so we have six ornaments this year is a rainbow for charlotte yes because she's our little rainbow baby that's right yeah she has no idea what it is she keeps chewing on it but um yeah so that's just it's just a really simple way to have family time and to reflect on who the lord is and his faithfulness and his goodness and i think that's so important to do with kids it teaches them how to view god and who he is and it takes out the consumerism of the season too which i think is really important yeah that's why i encourage you to think of something that works for your family huh charlotte i want you to think about something that would work for your family because like it's not something that um it's not something that is like the laugh out loud christmas movie you watch every year you know it's not like it's not like that but i'm telling you it's something i look forward to every year these traditions these are the things that bring life to the holiday season so i just want to encourage you whatever that whatever you can pull off like whether it's doing ornaments reading christmas story or thinking of something yourself i just want to encourage you to go for it and just like honor jesus this christmas because it's just truly a special season and what jesus did for us nobody else could have done and it's really a sweet gift that he gave to the world so uh we love you guys i hope you have an amazing merry christmas i will see you next year we'll see you next year charlotte we'll see you next year right hey guys justin jobe here we are just so expected for what god's going to do even in this last few weeks of uh 2020 and you know looking during this whole christmas uh time and season it's just it's it's always a a psalms 139 moment for me where i asked the lord to search me to know me and to try my anxieties and it's just been one of those things for me where coming towards the end of 2020 so much has happened so many distractions so many uh different things that are going on in our in our culture and our generation in our nation and it's just one of those things where i feel like i have to re-center my eyes on jesus and fix my eyes on jesus and really i've been asking the lord going into 2021 lord let me not take any residue from 2020 into the new year i want my heart to be a blank slate for the lord to do what he needs to do and move how he wants to move in our marriage in our life in our home in our youth group um and in every really every part of our life and so i just really feel this strong burden to pray for you and your household and your family and so we're going to go into that and jess is going to tag in at the last end of that and we're going to just bless you guys all right so lord we just asked for their homes we ask for every father for every mother for every child god we ask for blessing we ask father for fire and passion and desire to see your kingdom come lord we ask god for the spirit of revival to fall on their home we ask for salvation we ask for a healing god we thank you jesus that you are going to go forth and break through as the sound of my voice god i pray for breakthrough in jesus name i pray for healing i pray for deliverance and signs wonders and miracles to flow in and through them in jesus name yeah god i plead the blood of jesus over each and every person's home who's watching this right now god god we ask for your presence to come an increase in their home jesus god i ask for their kids god for each and every family member god i ask that you'd bring unity father i ask for fresh vision for fresh perspective over this next year and over what you want to do god god we do ask for a cleansing of all residue god of all baggage from this last year we command it to fall off as they walk and step into this new season jesus we declare joy in the morning in the name of jesus we thank you god we bless each home in jesus name amen amen love you guys hey everybody this is pastor greg and wendy and we're just really excited to just come into your home we're changing things up being comfy sitting on the couch and want to just bring a little gift to you about christmas wow that's good um we want to talk to you out of isaiah chapter nine and uh just some thoughts that are kind of been rolling in our hearts and uh so we're gonna we're going to do a little team work on this uh yeah so let me go ahead and read that portion of scripture uh to you uh isaiah 9 verse 6 for unto us a child is born and unto us the son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace in verse 7. of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end and so just some thoughts that i was just picking up this afternoon just kind of going over this portion of scripture and i'll just we'll just hit it just a phrase at a time for unto us a child is born and jesus came for us he came he left heaven for our sake and he didn't have to but he wanted to and he laid his life down as you know uh for our for our sins and if we accept him into our heart he becomes our lord and savior so i love that phrase for unto us for us for humanity he came unto us a child is born and the son is given a child is born expresses his humanity yeah and a son is given is actually expresses his deity so jesus came being fully man and fully god into a world that was chaotic that uh where it was oppressive obviously with mary and joseph and the conditions that they came under he came to us he came to us he was given to us under those circumstances so being fully god and fully man um is a deep expression of his heart yeah yeah i just wanted i was just like lord what what do you want to what do you want to say and i'm just like the realization of why he came like why he came and i just i always go to isaiah 9 during this christmas season and i really meditate on that portion of scripture and you know it's like the lord knew the end from the beginning he knew about 2020. he knew about this year he's not surprised and at christmas time um i do like i said i look at isaiah 9 and i think it was written like 700 years before christ came so isaiah is prophesying 700 years i can't even wrap my mind around um around the length of time you know what if if we're lucky the the longest we live is like 120 years and um if we're lucky if we're lucky and so um i just i love to to dive in into what isaiah prophesied um those you know like 700 years even before which is now you know even more than 2020 years ago right and um so god knew he knew then and he knows now and he didn't change his story so like when when greg was you know reading this scripture for unto us a child is born a son is given and the government will rest upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful i know a lot of people it's like we read a wonderful counselor but i like to focus on just the wonderfulness of christ and who he is and so it's like you know when we say beautiful that means we're full of beauty you're full of beauty so what does wonderful mean it's like he's full of wonder the wonder working power of christ so he's full of wonder and counselor how many of us need a counselor right now right yeah that's who he is i mean he is counselor so his name is like i love i'm i'm captivated by christ and we need to like fix our gaze on him as wonderful as counselor mighty god that means there is not one thing that he cannot do or accomplish he is mighty god he's he's all powerful all-knowing yeah and so this is the anchor of our soul right now and through this christmas season as isaiah prophesied he is wonderful his counselor he's mighty god oh and everlasting father the security in that like eternal father our fathers give us give us security and identity gives us you know like that yes the purpose our foundation of who we are and forever he's everlasting and then you guys come on prince a peace so it's just like let's fix our gaze on christ right now things are a turmoil around us but the prince of peace has come he is here he is among us and he has chosen his sons his daughters the ecclesia the bride of christ to partner to be a part of his story which is history his story history people are coming in and trying to change history they're trying to wipe out christ they're trying to wipe away why you know like his story the bible and and just his goodness and and why he came and he came to establish his kingdom so it's like it's our anchor verse seven i'm just like there will be no end no and to okay and not only no end but of the increase of his government and peace so when things are shaky right now i mean we are anchored into knowing come on 700 years before he was even born they isaiah prophesied this he prophesied this and this is it will come to pass it is coming to pass on the throne of david um his kingdom will be established and okay in seven to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness amen we want we need righteousness and justice in our land and you know we were founded on on on christ in god we trust one nation under god and from then on and forevermore and i just like forever and ever and ever and i can just sing that on and on and then the end of it is the zeal of the lord of hosts will accomplish this so he's come to give us life he's come to bring himself his name wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father and prince of peace he's here emmanuel god with us we anchor in and hold on to the promises that that the word of god has established and told us and it's all in the foundation of love it's all in the foundation of love and so christ came as a gift god so loved the world and he's our gift and that's our gift to you um in this christmas season where it's all about him it's all about his kingdom it's all about jesus it's all about jesus yeah and and as christ was given to us then i feel like we should just a fresh and anew just receive all that you said and all that he is um to us um almost has a fresh commitment yeah you know like allow the savior to come in and you know just bring his peace and bring the assurance that he's an everlasting father the wonder of who he is like allow him to come in in the middle of all the the chaos that that seems to be around us this christmas season i do believe there's a place where the peace of god could rest within us and on us and with our families this christmas season and this could actually maybe even be the best christmas we've ever had because the presence of god is so known in our homes yeah yeah amen amen let's pray well yeah let's go ahead and pray why don't you go ahead and pray hon and then and then we'll just wish them all a merry christmas well let's wish you a merry christmas yeah from our from our house you know from our from our house and from our our staff you know our you know we do wish you a very merry christmas we just pray that this day and this weekend yeah will be real really special for for every single one of you yeah and let's just remember let let's remember why you came when we were opening gifts that we love love giving gifts a lot of seeing the the awe and the wonder especially of kids you know they're just so excited let's have that heart posture about jesus about jesus because he is our gift and i just can't imagine life without him so we'd like to just invite you um if any of you are not um haven't asked him into your heart into your life that that you could just do that and all it takes is just you saying jesus come come be my savior be my lord take over i give it all to you forgive my sins and it's not just there's not some just specific prayer that you have to pray just be real just ask him to come and he'll come and he'll fill you so let's just pray over over all of your households and um i think you need to pray too not just me um so lord we just ask you to come in a fresh fresh way this year lord this this time right now as we celebrate your birth thank you jesus that you came thank you that you loved so much that you left heaven to come as a baby wow wow wow how that must have been to live in that day but we're living here in this day in this time frame and lord i just asked that you would fall fresh fall fresh on us that you would give us eyes to see you freshly lord the wonder of who you are [Music] that you would freshen our view god that you would open our eyes that you would open our heart and our ears lord that we would listen with both our ears and our eyes god that we would listen with our eyes just as much as with our ears because i know you can speak through things that we see so come come fresh we again rededicate just all of us we just say yes to you again we say yes to you again let the fire of god consume our hearts let passion consume our hearts lord that we would hunger and thirst for righteousness and we thank you that the zeal of the lord will see this to pass so we are not shaken by what is going on because we know that you god are on the throne and you're holding it all you're holding it all but we will commit to pull on heaven here to be here on earth we commit to declare and and come into agreement with the prophecies of today just like isaiah when he wrote isaiah lord that that we just come with and come into agreement with the prophets right now in the land and we say your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is here here in this land in this land that was dedicated from the beginning of its inception to you god for in god we trust bless america father bless this season we thank you for christmas we thank you for your birth lord yeah and so father we just recognize that you're fully in control yeah and we just pray that the presence of the living christ would be revealed and amplified and strengthened in every home we just pray for hope to fill our hearts to faith for faith to fill our hearts and allowing you in again we thank you for coming and we thank you for dwelling with us even now in the name of jesus amen amen amen well we just want to wish you a a very very merry christmas god bless you yeah um and jesus is the reason for this for the season amen amen bye see ya

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Published: Fri Dec 25 2020