I just have to be honest, I hate sermons about Christmas. I usually hate the Sunday before Christmas because it's so routine: sing some Christmas songs, hear the Christmas message, stand around afterwards and talk to people about traditions, etc. And personally, I'm just not that big of a Christmas person anymore. I love the day itself, but I hate winter. I'm not a cold person, I'm not a decorate for the season kind of person, and I'm really not that into any time of year that is so routine. Well this morning when I was getting ready I was thinking about this in my mind and about how much I usually dislike these Sundays. I decided somehow I'd try to have a different mindset, maybe try to learn something new about the Christmas story or something. Well, it's kinda crazy I guess, but the sermon wasn't even about the Christmas story. So, Hallelujah. It was a really great sermon. It's been cool, the past couple Sundays I've heard sermons on passages of Scripture that I'll recently been thinking "I'd be interested to hear a sermon on this." Last week it was Isaiah 53, today it was John 3:16. 

For God so loved the world (the broken. the needy. the selfish. the prideful. the person caught up in addiction. the lustful. the liar. the stealer. the lost. the hopeless. the chaotic. the dishonest. the weak. the hateful. the ungrateful. the lonely.) that He GAVE His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him, WILL NOT PERISH, but have everlasting life.

Life honestly just continues to get more beautiful.