The Love of God Displayed in Christ

1 John 4:7-11  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 

Sermon series description:
This sermon series explores the season of Advent, a four week period that leads up to Christmas, a time of anticipating the comings of Christ.

Advent comes from the Latin word adventus for an "arrival" or a "coming." The vision that Advent gives us is twofold; it looks back to the first coming of Christ at Bethlehem, and it looks to the future when Christ will come again.

Advent is a time of both grateful remembrance as well as joyful anticipation. It is a time to remember the incarnation of Jesus, how Christ simultaneously revealed God's will for human life and reconciled sinful man to God through his own perfect life and death. It is also a time of anticipating Christ's return when he will consummate his work of redemption.