What is true peace?  Jordan Brannon kicks off our new sermon series entitled Advent.  The nativity story is a very famous story.  You can look anywhere and find it in nativity scenes, songs, TV, movies and even toys!  It’s so common that we can take the meaning of the nativity for granted.  We need to make sure that we properly value the Scripture and understand the prophecy.  Jordan focuses on Luke 8:14 and tells us what we should learn or know.  First, we should know that we need a savior!  There is no peace if we don’t have peace with God.  Next we should know that savior is Jesus.  That infant in a manger grows up to be the Savior of the world.  The last thing we should know is that Jesus makes us pleasing to God.  He sent Jesus so that we can be saved.

What are the encouragements that we get from the prophecies in the nativity story?  One of the biggest encouragements to us should be from the promise of peace.  That promise of peace somehow gets missed in the retelling of the story and needs to be brought forward.  There are two types of peace: Peace with God and Peace from God.  Jordan explains both of these types of peace.