Daily Bread
It's City North's 7th birthday! But what do a birthday, a miracle involving bread from heaven, and people wandering in a desert 3,500 years ago have in common? And frankly, why does any of it matter at all? I mean, isn't celebrating a church birthday a little weird?
Just like in our normal lives, birthdays are a perfect and natural time to look back at where we've been, and look forward to where we're going. For our church it's no different. And as we look back there are an awful lot of similarities between a story God wrote thousands of years ago when Israel was wandering in the desert and the story he's written in and through City North these last seven years.
But even more importantly, we'll use what God has past as we look ahead to an uncertain future
This week we'll answer that question as we look back to remember what God has done and look ahead at what God is going to do.
What do you imagine when you think of the birth of Jesus? A barn? Animals? Shepherds and wise men? We all have images we think of, but the truth is the Bible tells us very little about what Jesus' birth was like. In fact, two of the Gospels don't include anything about Jesus' birth at all.
Instead, the Bible focuses on why Jesus was born, because to the Biblical writers what it looked like simply didn't matter at all compared to why He came to earth.
This Christmas Eve we'll reimagine the Christmas story, no matter what images come to mind. We'll look at the birth of Christ through the eyes of both Matthew and Luke, to focus in on the most important detail: the "why".