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Weekly Devotional Message from David Jones ANNOUCEMENTS We are going caroling tomorrow night beginning at 6:00 p.m. Meet at the church and afterwards enjoy some cookies. Please remember we have only one worship service this Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. and there is no Sunday School. Our Christmas Eve worship later on Sunday will be at 5:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. We will have candle lighting at all services and at the 11:00 p.m. service we will celebrate communion. Also the Chili Cook off originally scheduled for January 1st has been postponed. It will be rescheduled later. Watch for details. A Reading Guide for the New Testament for 2007 is now available. It will be on the Visitors Table in the narthex or you can find one in the church office.
December 22, 2006 Dear family and friends of WCPC: I trust you’ve accomplished most of your Christmas shopping. I haven’t and will need to brave a few stores tomorrow. My father always waited until Christmas Eve to do his shopping. He would always go to K-Mart. Since I’m usually busy on Christmas Eve, I do mine the day before. The girls aren’t too much trouble to shop for. All they want are gift cards. As we finish up our shopping and get ready for Christmas morning, let me ask you to ponder this question – what are you giving Jesus for His birthday? I mean after all it is His birthday! While I’m glad we exchange presents with family and friends this time of year, we shouldn’t forget whose birthday it is! Jesus is hard to buy for. What do you give someone who literally has everything? You give Him the one thing He doesn’t have unless you offer it. You give Him your life. What Jesus wants for His birthday is you and me – our love, our devotion, our commitment. He wants us. He wants us to commit ourselves to Him, to passionately knowing more and more about Him and serving Him more and more fully in the days and years ago. He bids us to come and follow Him and be His disciples. So this Christmas, as we gather for worship and for gift giving; as we add a little extra weight with all the feasting and celebrating; as we get together with our family and friends, remember, He is the reason for the Season. Remember whose birthday it is and offer to Jesus, to the Babe of Bethlehem, the one thing He wants this Christmas – really the only thing – you, me. Let us offer ourselves to Him. For some of us, like me, who have known Him for many years, it’s a time of recommitment, of offering myself once again to my Lord and King. For others, it is a time of new birth, new life, new commitment, a Christmas like no other. O come, let us adore Him! Your pastor, David Jones
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