CAROLS, CANDLELIGHT & COMMUNION // December 21, 2025 // Ryan Jackson, Children's Pastor & Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor

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December 21, 2025

 

Jesus fulfilled around 300 prophecies.

Micah 5: 2 (NLT)

   …you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.

Isaiah 7: 14 (NLT)

    …the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).

Isaiah 11: 1 (NLT)

   Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot— yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.

Psalm 22: 16 – 18 (NLT)

   My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.  17 I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.  18 They divide my garments among themselves and throw dice for my clothing.

Psalm 16: 10 (NLT)

    For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.

BIG CHRISTMAS // Sunday, December 14, 2025 // LPAG staff & volunteers

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December 14, 2024

Immanuel

Isaiah 8: 6 - 8 (NLT)

   “My care for the people of Judah is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, but they have rejected it. They are rejoicing over what will happen to King Rezin and King Pekah. 7 Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels 8 and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.

 

Isaiah 7: 13 & 14 (NLT)

    Isaiah said, “Listen well, you royal family of David! Isn’t it enough to exhaust human patience? Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well? 14 All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’). 

 

Matthew 1: 20 – 23 (NLT)

   As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.  “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. 21 And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus,  for he will save his people from their sins.”

   22 All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:  23 “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”

 

ʿimmānû ʿēl — ‘with us (is) God’