Christmas: retailers absolutely love Christmas. Why? Because it’s the bestselling season of the year. And let’s admit it, we like getting gifts, that is, if the gift is what we want, if it meets our expectations or goes beyond our expectations. [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie shares a Christmas message from Matthew 2 titled "The Gift: How to Keep Christmas Happy." He highlights the greatest gift God gave us—eternal life through Jesus Christ—explaining justification, adoption, and its lasting [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie explains the true gift of Christmas as eternal life through Jesus Christ, not temporary things under the tree. Drawing from Romans 6:23, he contrasts the wages of sin (death) with God's free gift of justification, adoption, [...]

When it comes to relationships, Christmas can be one of the most difficult times of the year because it’s supposed to be a time of family. It’s supposed to be a time of love. And yet, maybe it’s your daughter, or maybe it’s your son, or maybe it’s [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie kicks off the New Testament part of The Greatest Stories Ever Told by diving into the real Christmas story. It starts way back in Genesis with the promise of a Savior who will crush the serpent's head, pointing straight to [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie shares the true meaning of Christmas from Luke 1 and Matthew 1: Jesus came on a rescue mission to save us from our sin—past, present, and future—so we can be born again. Emmanuel, God with us, entered our dark world as a helpless [...]

In "Go Tell It on the Mountain" from Luke 2, Pastor Greg Laurie shares a heartwarming family campfire story where grandchildren correct Grandpa Greg's silly versions of Christmas—reminding us it's all about Jesus. He highlights [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie shares a Christmas Eve message titled "Fear Not" from Luke 2, reminding us that the original Christmas story was filled with fear—Zechariah, Mary, and the shepherds were all afraid. Yet angels repeatedly said "fear [...]

In "Don’t Lose Jesus This Christmas," Pastor Greg Laurie reflects on the angels' promise of peace amid a troubled world, sharing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's story behind "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" to show [...]

In this message on Luke 1, Pastor Greg Laurie dives into the often-misunderstood Christmas story by starting with the announcement of John the Baptist's birth to Zacharias and Elizabeth. He shows how God chose humble, faithful, ordinary people [...]

In "Christ before Christmas," Pastor Greg Laurie traces Jesus back before the nativity to Genesis 3:15 and John 1, showing He existed eternally as God and Creator. Through the promise in Eden, pre-incarnate appearances like with Abraham, [...]

On this Christmas Eve, Pastor Steven Furtick shares from Isaiah 11:1 about a shoot rising from Jesse's stump—a prophecy pointing to Jesus as the Branch bringing hope from apparent defeat. The message highlights that real, anchored hope [...]

We reduce Christmas to forgiveness. We can’t live up to God’s standards, so he sent Jesus to make things right. Maybe your entire experience with God has been: nobody’s perfect, but God forgives. That message isn’t necessarily incorrect, but it’s [...]

The Christmas story began in Genesis with God’s promise that through one man the entire world would be blessed. Apparently, the world needed blessing. But it wasn’t only the world that needed Christmas. God needed it too. The world needed Christmas. [...]

The Christmas story didn’t begin with shepherds watching over their flocks, wise men following a star, and a young couple that couldn’t find a place to have their baby. It began much earlier than that, and it was more epic than anyone could have [...]

In this message on John 2:1-11, Pastor Steven Furtick talks about what to do when your joy feels like it's running out, using the wedding at Cana where Jesus turns water into wine as a picture of how God steps in. The big point is that Jesus [...]

Pastor Greg Laurie shares a heartfelt Christmas message from Luke 2, reminding us that amid fake stories and sentimental traditions, a real Christmas centers on Jesus' humble birth at God's perfect time in Bethlehem as our Savior. We must [...]

God bless you and Shalom, beloved ones. This is Rabbi Schneider today. Welcome to this very important broadcast; it's a special Christmas edition. Now some of you may wonder, what's Rabbi Schneider, a Jew, doing celebrating Christmas, [...]

Pastor Steven Furtick preaches from Luke 1:26-38 on Mary's response to the angel's announcement that changed all her plans. The Christmas story shows God's surprises and interruptions often carry divine purpose. Mary accepted the [...]

The preacher shifts focus from Christ's humble birth to the Magi's journey guided by a star, emphasizing God's ordering of our steps through good and bad—assuring that divine guidance, like a flickering light in darkness, leads us to [...]

Shalom Yedidim, and God bless you beloved ones. My name's Rabbi K. A. Schneider. Welcome today to this edition of Discovering the Jewish Jesus. We bring today a special message on the birth of Messiah. I would have never thought, beloved, [...]

God bless you and Shalom, beloved one. My name's Messianic Rabbi K.A. Schneider. Welcome today to this very special edition of Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I'm calling this a special edition because we're gonna be looking at [...]

Dr. Stanley reminds us that the childlike excitement and wonder of Christmas morning should never fade, because all the symbols—trees, lights, gifts—point to Jesus, God's greatest gift to humanity. From Luke 2:1-7, he describes Jesus as the [...]

Dr. Stanley reminds us that Christmas isn't mainly about trees, gifts, or holidays—it's celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, God coming to us as Immanuel to save us from sin. He explains how Jesus' birth, death, and resurrection [...]

The Purpose of Christmas is part 2 of the 4 part series The Meaning of Christmas with Tony Evans. [...]

Dr. Charles Stanley highlights the true heart of Christmas beyond parties, family gatherings, meals, and shopping: the arrival of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, as foretold in Isaiah 9:6 and announced in Luke 2. He explains that the angel's [...]

In this Christmas message, David Jeremiah reflects on the profound wonder of the Incarnation—how God became man, eternity entered time, and royalty embraced poverty—through the story of a king who became a peasant to win a humble maiden's [...]

Dr. Stanley reflects on what truly comes to mind at Christmas—often shopping, traffic, or lists rather than the eternal significance of Jesus' birth. He highlights how an seemingly insignificant stable birth fulfilled ancient prophecy, how God [...]

This Christmas message reminds us that no matter how people try to rename or secularize the season—calling it holiday, Yuletide, X-mas, or anything else—the heart of it remains Christ, whose name is woven into the very words we use. The angel [...]

In this Christmas sermon from Luke 2, the preacher highlights how "the time came" for Jesus' birth as a picture of God's unstoppable timing. He urges us to embrace the changes God brings—accepting, obeying, birthing, and [...]

Celebrating Jesus' humble birth in a manger, this message contrasts heaven's spectacular view with earth's mundane disappointment, emphasizing that true glory lies in intangibles like love and understanding—Christ came not only to [...]

Names matter in the Bible, because names are used descriptively to describe something or somebody, and one name that, we'll look at other names a little bit later, but one name that I would like to focus on today is found in Matthew chapter 1, [...]

This Christmas sermon uses a funny story about a woman who accidentally sent cards promising a gift "on its way" to remind us that true giving—and receiving—is at the heart of the season. The greatest gift ever given was God's only [...]

From Matthew 1, the angel tells worried Joseph "fear not" to take Mary as wife, for the child is conceived by the Holy Ghost—God's gifts often initially cause fear, confusion, and chaos rather than immediate joy, but trusting His [...]

The Christmas story, viewed through the lens of change in the series "Times and Seasons," shows how God brings transformation—Joseph had to accept and obey unexpected change, while Mary had to birth something divine. The preacher calls us [...]

In this Christmas message, the preacher reflects on the troubled reality of the first Christmas—Mary's unexpected pregnancy, Joseph's doubt, and the messy birth in a stable—teaching that true favor from God often comes wrapped in [...]