REMEMBER WHAT YOU’RE DOING THIS CHRISTMAS, Advent series 3 of 4 (audio)

The 3^rd message in our series for Advent/ Christmas is titled:  REMEMBER WHAT YOU’RE DOING THIS CHRISTMAS.

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---Anderson T. Graves II   is a pastor, writer, community organizer, and consultant  

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com

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NOT WHAT YOU PLANNED BUT EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED (audio of Advent sermon 2 of 4)

The 2nd of 4 messages for Advent 2018.  This sermon is titled: NOT WHAT YOU PLANNED BUT EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED.

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 --Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com

Email: BaileyTabernacleChurch@comcast.net

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves 

Click here to support this ministry with a donation.  Or go to andersontgraves.blogspot.com and click on the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar. 

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P.O. Box 3145 

Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35403

A GREAT GIFT IN UGLY WRAPPING

In the Christmas season we wrap gifts or pay for it to be done.  Some of us are as careful of the way we cover the presents as we are of what we put inside. As an 80’s tv father once said, “It’s all about the presentation.”  But what if it isn’t.  What if someone offered you the greatest gift you’d ever receive, but they placed the gift in the ugliest, most unappealing possible place and circumstances.  That actually happened for all of us about 2,000 years ago.  Take a new, and possibly disturbing, look at the nativity. 

The title of the message is A GREAT GIFT IN UGLY WRAPPING.

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---Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama;  executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO);  and director of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human Development (NIHD).

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WHAT CHILD IS THIS?

What child is this?

That is the opening line of a beloved Christmas song.  It is also the title of this Sunday’s Advent message. Take a journey through cycles of prophetic fulfillment and see how God teaches us to see beyond the right now and into the eternal.

WHAT CHILD IS THIS?

                    

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The podcast is on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anderson-graves-podcast/id918990482

---Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama;  executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO);  and director of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human Development (NIHD).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

Miles Chapel CME Church

P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064

CAN HE STILL GET A WITNESS?

Some things are too important to just take one person’s word for it.  Those most important situations have to be verified, preferably by the testimony of multiple witnesses.

Jesus claimed that He was the actual Son of God.  In fact Jesus claimed to be God Himself.  That idea, the doctrine of Christ’s divinity,  is the basis of our faith and the primary theme of the Biblical story of the Nativity.  The birth of Jesus as God with us is so important that God arranged for multiple witnesses to verify the facts.

This final message before Christmas walks through the testimony of those witnesses and poses a crucial question for believers in this Advent season:

The sermon is titled:  CAN GOD STILL GET A WITNESS?

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---Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer, and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church and the executive director of SAYNO (Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization) in Montgomery, Alabama.

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DEEPER THAN CRAZY: What the story of Jesus’ birth can teach about the Connecticut school shooting

The Sandy Oaks Elementary School murders happened geographically far away from Montgomery, Alabama, but aspects of this assault still touched close to home.

I was wrestling with the why and how of the Newport, Connecticut tragedy at the same time I was wrestling with a message God was giving me about the birth of Jesus.  In a way that only God can do, the Holy Spirit opened the Word and showed what the Biblical story of Christmas has to say to us about the tragedies that are becoming increasingly common in our society.

It’s not your usual December sermon, but it may be just the Word we need.  The message is called: DEEPER THAN CRAZY.

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