Christmas Day Devotional Guide

Merry Christmas, Park Church!

As you celebrate today, we wanted to share a few tools for individual or family worship. Everyone observes this day differently—fit as much or as little of this into your day as you’d like!

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Christmas Eve & Year-End Services

Christmas Eve at Park Church

This Sunday, December 24 • 3, 4:30, & 6pm (6pm Service is Streamed Live)

Childcare available for ages 0–2 at the 3pm and 4:30pm services only. Activity bags will be available for children in all services, as well as open space downstairs to do activities and play. There will be no 9am or 11am services on Christmas Eve Day.

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New Year's Eve Service

Sunday, December 31 • One Service Only: 10am

A time for worship and prayer. This service will also be streamed live. There will be no Park Kids at this service.

Aching for Advent:

The minor prophets served the people of God during a time when they were experiencing an unraveling of their lives and livelihood as a result of unfaithfulness in their covenant with God. The people were aching—aching from the pain they were experiencing and aching for God to intervene, bring them home, and restore His Kingdom. The prophets spoke to these pains by calling the people to return to the Lord and to trust Him, following His ways as they wait for Him to fulfill His promises through a coming King.

The fulfillment of those promises began during the first advent of Jesus. He came into the world to announce the arrival of His Kingdom, making a way for us to enter His Kingdom through faith in His redemptive work. However, though we experience aspects of this Kingdom now, we live in a world where the Kingdom has not yet fully arrived. We continue to ache from the pains of the world. We ache for God to fulfill His promises and complete His redemptive work.

God has promised to bring justice to an unjust world.
He has promised to bring freedom to a captive world.
He has promised to make a home for a homesick world.
He’s promised to do all this through a Savior King.

As the minor prophets helped the people of Israel prepare for and await the Messiah, they can likewise teach us how to stand between the first coming of Christ and His future return. Join us in prayer that, in this season, we will learn how to let the aching of our present age increase our hope in Christ and His future return.

New to Advent?

This season of the church calendar includes the four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. Advent means “coming” or “arrival” and is a season both for remembering Jesus' first coming at Christmas and also longing for His return. Learn more about Advent and why Park Church observes the church calendar here at our liturgy page.

Sermons from Advent Sundays

Hebrews 10:24–25

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Advent 2023: Aching for Advent • Brent Summers

Christmas Day Devotional Guide Merry Christmas, Park Church! As you celebrate today, we wanted to share a few tools for […]