What Do You Fear? || Good News is Louder than Fear || Christmas Eve

Wednesday, December 24, 2025 || 7:00pm

Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor

Luke 2:1-20

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“Do not be afraid, for see, I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day a Savior!”

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God did not wait for the world to become safe before entering it.

God entered precisely where fear had taken residence.

A child is born.

Not in a palace, but in a borrowed barn.

Not in power, but in vulnerability.

And this birth, and the circumstances around it, continue to have the power to lessen fear’s grip on our lives.

Join us in worship this Christmas Eve as we meditate on how the good news of Christmas can drown out the noise of fear, in light of how God has entered our fear-filled world not from a distance, but up close: to live, to die, and to rise again, freeing us from all that holds us captive.

Lee Schriber