PASTOR’S COLUMN 15  “When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let us see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” 16 They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby lying in the manager. 17  After seeing Him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. 18  And all who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished,

PASTOR’S COLUMN ​ 2 “But you, O Bethlehem Ephratha, are only a small village among the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from  you on my behalf.”        Micah 5:2, NLT 10 “Do not despise the day of small beginnings. Zechariah 4:10, KJV ”3 rd Sunday in Advent - Purpose!”   The divine purposes of God are not delineated, nor determined, by size or quantity. God’s divine purposes will come to fulfillment in the exact man

PASTOR’S COLUMN 1 “In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He existed in the beginning with God. 3 God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him. 4  The Word gave life to everyone that was created, and His life brought light to everyone. 5  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.   14 So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of