Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? How Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? How Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

"We worship because we are already loved by God. That's what Christmas is a celebration of." ••• In this special Christmas Touchpoint, we unwrap what it means for Christians to understand the Christmas season from a historical, Biblical, and cultural context and four takeaways in response.

TP 037 – Reconciliation Focuses Us on Jesus Not People

"What is my end goal - the reconciliation of fellow image-bearers who are lost, who are dead, but who Jesus can make alive." ••• In this week's touchpoint wrapping up our deeper dive into Ephesians, we unpack how we understand reconciliation as partners with Jesus, always remembering the depth of what God has done and aligning our hearts and minds with the work He is still doing in fellow image bearers - even if we don't see it yet.

TP 036 – How Truth Allows Us To Be Made New In Jesus

"People are always asking 'Okay now what do I do with the truth? How do I become the new man or the new self?'" ••• In this week's Touchpoint, we dig into how spending time in God's Word and sitting under the teaching in a church move us to daily ask "How is Jesus changing me?

TP 035 – What Unity Looks Like As We Follow After Jesus

"Unity happens because I am intentionally moving towards you with the gospel in a relational way." ••• In this week's Touchpoint, Pastors Matt and Brannon dig into how Jesus shapes our understanding of unity, and what it means for us as followers of Jesus to intentionally work towards unity.

TP 034 – We Must Be People Who Spend Time In God’s Word

"The Holy Spirit indwells me and enables me to walk with Jesus. But that is not a quick – that's a long, slow, simmering in the scripture." ••• In this week's Touchpoint, Miles and Kristi talk about how we must press into the Word of God daily to remember who God is and what He has done, and through this let the Holy Spirit renew us more and more to be like Jesus.