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    Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons: Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors, #14
    Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons: Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors, #14
    Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons: Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors, #14
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    Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons: Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors, #14

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    Christmas Sermon Outlines for Today's Busy Pastor

    With the commercialization and secularization of Christmas growing year by year, the real reason for Christmas gets lost in the shuffle. The sermons in Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons brings the focus back squarely on Jesus Christ. Inside, you'll find 21 sermon outlines, including a 3 sermon series and a unique Joseph monologue. Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons will help the busy pastor turn the church's eye back to Jesus this Christmas season.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRob Westbrook
    Release dateAug 16, 2013
    ISBN9781498922708
    Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Christmas Sermons: Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors, #14

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      Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors - Rob Westbrook

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1. Another Christmas Tree - Colossians 1:19-20

      2. Christmas Gifts from God - Luke 2:8-14

      3. The Greatest Christmas Present Ever - Romans 6:23

      4. For This Reason - John 18:37

      5. John the Baptist - Luke 1:57-80

      6. Joseph - Matthew 1:18-25

      7. Christ is Christmas - Luke 2:10-11

      8. He Was Born to Be - 1 John 1:1-3

      9. The Coming of the Word - John 1:1-18

      10. The Incarnation: A Child is Born - Luke 2:1-14

      11. Wise Men Still Seek Him - Matthew 2:1-12

      12. This Baby’s Life - Isaiah 53:1-12

      13. They Slept Through It - Micah 5:2

      14. When Did Christmas Begin? - 1 Peter 1:18-21

      15. Good News for All - Luke 2:1-20

      16. Do You Have Room for Jesus? - Luke 2:1-7

      17. The Fullness of Time - Galatians 4:4-5

      18. Xmas: What's Missing in Your Christmas? - Amazement - Genesis 3:15

      19. Xmas: What's Missing in Your Christmas? - The Supernatural - Matthew 1:18-25

      20. Xmas: What's Missing in Your Christmas? - Reflection and Perspective - Luke 2:19

      21. Joseph Monologue

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      About the Author

      Introduction

      Pastors are the busiest people in our country.

      According to my research, that statement is a fact. Of course, my research is not scientific, but I believe it to be accurate. My most trusted research data comes from my wife. She says we’re the busiest people in our country, and I always listen to my wife!

      I know, firsthand, all the many different directions we are pulled, every single day. There’s hospitals to visit, weddings to officiate, and funerals to preach. There’s families to counsel, new believers to disciple, and leaders to train. There’s worship services to plan, toilets to unclog, and light bulbs to be replaced. And some of us have these things to do WHILE working another job – doing the bi–vocational thing. There’s enough stuff going on to keep us busy twenty–five hours a day, eight days a week.

      Oh yeah, and there’s sermons to prepare. We’ve got to work that in with all the other things vying for our attention. The one thing most of us feel to be our primary purpose, our calling – preaching the Word of God – has to compete with everything else for the one finite element in all of this. Time.

      As a seminary student, I remember hearing someone say a pastor should dedicate an hour of preparation to every minute of his sermon. At the time, I thought that was an unreal amount of time to spend in sermon prep. Now, years and sermons later, I can’t even grasp the thought. If our average sermon length is thirty minutes, that equates to thirty hours of prep! For those who have a Sunday night message to prepare, and maybe one for Wednesday night, well, that doesn’t exactly leave time for much else.

      There may be some of you who have that luxury of time, but for most of us, that amount of time is simply not there. So we do the best we can with the time we’ve got, and trust God to make something useful from our efforts. And our gracious and merciful Lord often does.

      But we want to do better. We want to present our people with well–prepared messages. Messages that will not only fill a thirty minute time slot, but will also feed them spiritually, lift their hearts, convict them of their sin, and call them into a new or deeper walk with the Lord.

      That’s why I’ve put this series together. These Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors books are for those of you who can identify with any of the above. I want to give you something to build on. Something that’s been studied through, that gives you a head–start for your messages this Sunday. Something that will help you make the most of your limited time.

      I don’t make any claims these are the best sermon outlines you’ll ever see. They may not be on par with anything you’ve prepared yourself. But they have all been studied over, prayed over, and preached. The outlines are complete, compiled from the sermon notes I take into the pulpit each week. Take them as a whole, or use them to spur your thoughts in other directions.

      Another thing I remember hearing in seminary is: The Bible, the Word of God, has been preached by many, many preachers for two thousand years. You’re probably not going to preach anything that hasn’t been preached before. I would say that is an accurate statement. We’re influenced by the preachers and sermons we hear. God speaks to us through them. And He may speak those same words through us in our messages to others. I know that’s true sometimes in my case and I’m fairly certain that’s true for most pastors. And I’m sure many sermons you’ll find here bear the marks of those preachers I’ve heard or read.

      Nevertheless, I offer these sermon outlines to you. Use them for your benefit and for the glory of our Lord. I pray this book, and the entire series, provides you with a tool to help you make the most of your time. And to make much of Jesus Christ.

      Preach the Word!

      Another Christmas Tree

      Colossians 1:19-20

      I. Intro

      A. How many of you have put your Christmas tree up?

      1. The Christmas tree means Christmas time is here.

      2. I want us to think about another tree.

      3. This tree has much more significance than our Christmas trees today.

      4. This tree was used to make a cross.

      B. When the angel announced Jesus’ birth to the shepherds, he said Jesus would bring peace and goodwill to men.

      1. In our verses today, we see this peace came from the death of Jesus on the cross.

      2. Read Colossians 1:19-20.

      C. Today I want us to compare our Christmas tree to that tree of the past, the cross.

      1. After today, I want you to look at your Christmas tree in a way you may not have before.

      2. Let’s look at our Christmas tree in view of the cross.

      II. We Put Up Our Trees.

      A. The first thing we do is put our tree up.

      1. When I was younger, we’d go out in the woods to get a tree.

      2. We’d look and look until we found the perfect tree.

      3. We’d cut it down and drag it back home.

      4. Nowadays, we may go to a farm or store and select one.

      5. However we do it, we select one, take it home, and put it up.

      B. 2000 years ago, somebody went out in the woods.

      1. They were looking for the perfect tree.

      2. This tree wasn’t to hang decorations on.

      3. This tree was to nail someone on.

      4. They dragged it back to Jerusalem.

      5. They trimmed the tree to get it ready for the day.

      C. We put up our Christmas tree to celebrate the birth of Christ.

      1. But His birth points to the cross.

      2. Jesus was born to die.

      3. He died for you.

      D. Let's talk about these two trees.

      1. Let's compare our Christmas tree with the tree that made up the cross.

      III. We Decorate Our Tree.

      A. Once we get our tree up, we start

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