| Moving Forward I pray your Christmas was filled with joy and peace! Hopefully you were able to connect with friends and family, even if you weren't able to share the same spaces.
This email includes links to worship for the final Sunday of 2020. I know there are many people ready to close the books on this year. However, there's no guarantee that 2021 will meet our expectations either. Our hope is not found in the turning of the calendar. Our hope is in Jesus. The world he created was good, but it has long been subject to decay. Time will not heal the wounds of sin. His blood shed on the cross, and his wounded hands alone can do this.
As the redeemed people of God, we look forward with heads held high in hope, not because the calendar moves forward but because our God continues to move us forward. We move forward in his good plans as we anticipate healing, restoration and peace. We continue our Christmas celebration, as we trust in the God who entered this broken world in order to bring these gifts. I'm grateful to celebrate, to hope, and to follow Jesus with you.
here for you,
Matt Behrens, Pastor In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5) | 
