Giving Back Christmas: Joy | December 21, 2025
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Release Date: 12/21/2025
firstChristian Norfolk | Sunday Messages
Tim DeFor | We are free in Christ, but does that mean we can do whatever we want? Paul’s instructions to a chaotic church in Corinth reveal that our personal conduct in public worship speaks volumes to those around us. In limiting or expressing the freedom Christ's love gave us, we may actually be unloving. With such a confusion, how can we lovingly honor others and remove barriers to the work of the gospel?
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Tim DeFor | "Love your neighbor." Easy, right? Until it's not. Love in action costs us. None of us has enough to meet every need, so it's true that everyone has to make judgement calls on who to love with what God has given us. When Jesus was asked who we are to love, he completely reframes the question in a way that challenges our comfort.
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Tony Burke | In a world that makes love easy to say and hard to live, and then keeps score of who deserves it, God invites us into something better. WE LOVE NEIGHBORS is a year-long emphasis that challenges us to respond with compassion and action whenever the opportunity to serve arises.
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Randall Coffin | In a world that often rewards isolation, we are called to live differently by caring for the people God has placed right in front of us. WE LOVE NEIGHBORS is a year-long emphasis that challenges us to respond with compassion and action whenever the opportunity to serve arises.
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Celebrate what God has done among us in 2025 and look ahead to where He is leading. Hear powerful stories of life change, worship together, and celebrate with anticipation how God will use us to show his love to our neighbors in the year ahead.
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Kiah Jackson | One thing is faith that moves. Faith isn’t just belief, it’s trust lived out in real life. Jesus invites us to receive the gift of faith and live like we trust him every day.
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Tim DeFor | How would you describe the greatest Christmas gift? How can you describe a gift that is impossible to deserve, outrageously expensive, and freely given? If it was given to you, how would you respond? It may surprise you that it all is wrapped up in the biggest little word.
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Randall Coffin | Why does Christmas joy so often feel fragile and fleeting? What if joy isn't something we manufacture, but something we receive? To receive this Joy, the answer might be in the Christmas song "Joy to the World" in the line that says, "Let ev'ry heart prepare him (the Lord) room."
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Tim DeFor | Have you heard this interchange? "What do you want for Christmas?" "World Peace." What people mean is the end of all wars and violence. But what if that is aiming too low? Jesus came to give us peace, but the peace he came to give, and what he wants from us is so much more than that. And we can be part of making it.
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Tim DeFor | What do you want for Christmas? Children and adults alike are asked by friends and family each year. But have you wondered what Jesus wants from Christmas? What if this year, we give Christmas back to Jesus by receiving his hope and sharing it with others? Great! But how do we do that? It is simple, but not always easy.
info_outlineRandall Coffin | Why does Christmas joy so often feel fragile and fleeting? What if joy isn't something we manufacture, but something we receive? To receive this Joy, the answer might be in the Christmas song "Joy to the World" in the line that says, "Let ev'ry heart prepare him (the Lord) room."