Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Advent 2017Scripture: John 1:1-9 “Christmas, then, is not a dream, a moment of escapism.  Christmas is the reality, which shows up the rest of “reality.”  And for Christmas, here, read Christianity.  Either Jesus is the Lord of the world, and all reality makes sense in his light, or he is dangerously irrelevant to the problems and possibilities of today’s world.  There is no middle ground.  Either Jesus was, and is, the Word of God, or he, and the stories Christians tell about him, are lies.” —N.T. Wright “‘He came down from heaven’ can almost be transposed into ‘Heaven drew earth up into it,’ and locality, limitation, sleep, sweat, footsore weariness, frustration, pain, doubt, and death are, from before all worlds, known by God from within. The pure light walks the earth; the darkness, received into the heart of Deity, is there swallowed up. Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?” —C. S. Lewis “There are theological reasons for observing a serious Advent without being swallowe