Transforming Mission Leadercast With Tim Bias & Sara Thomas

You can find show notes for this episode at https://transformingmission.org/099 It's time for a moment of honesty. What feelings does Christmas bring up for you? In the midst of the joy, grief, sadness, excitement, ambivalence, hope, promise, nostalgia, and/or weariness, etc. do you have the courage to recognize God is with you? In this season where the message of Emmanuel, God with us, is being shared, do you have the courage to be vulnerable with God? Whatever you may be experiencing this Christmas, God is with you. The promise of God's presence doesn't dissipate with our feelings. Instead, God shows up, with open arms, waiting to embrace you.  That's the message of Christmas. God showing up and embracing the world. When God wanted us to know everything we needed to know about love, God did not write a paragraph, God wrote it in a person – Jesus.  When God wanted to make it clear how much He loved us.  God did not say it in a sentence, God said it in a Savior – Jesus  When God sent us the most important mes