Posted on December 24, 2009 - by rfrank

The greatest news event ever

Merry Christmas Eve from Beth & I. We will spend the day together as a family. We’ve been playing with Luci this morning, we’ll run to the church in about an hour to set up the platform for tonight’s communion service, then we’ll come back home for more family time together. I’ll probably make my famous (well, they are famous in our family) candied pecans. Tonight we will spend the evening with our church family. We love the Christmas eve communion service at my church. Then off to my parents to celebrate Christmas.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family and those you love. I want to share a very well-known passage of Scripture. The greatest news event ever was not the declaration of our  independence, it wasn’t man landing on the moon, it wasn’t even Al Gore inventing the Internet. It was the day that Christ’s birth was announced!

And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.” (Luke 2:9-12; 13-14)

Merry Christmas! I am looking forward to a new year of ministry together!