Finding Peace in God’s Presence

Our Coming Savior

Luke 2:1-7

What Does Christmas mean?

Emmanuel
“God is with us”

Jeremiah 17:9; John 14:27

The Nativity Scene
Census
Bethlehem (house of bread)
a manger (feeding trough)
Katalyma (guest room, roadside lodge)

“The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

Frederich Buechner

Additional Scripture References:

• John 6:32-33
• John 6:35
• Jeremiah 1:12
• Jeremiah 29:11
• Revelation 3:20
• Jeremiah 29:12-13
• Galatians 2:20
• 1 John 4:8-9

"Be still, and know that I am God!"
Psalm 46:10a