Text: Isaiah 9:1-7
This year, 2020, will be remembered for the many difficulties and challenges that we all faced along the way. From week to week and month to month, it seemed that the news about the ongoing pandemic and its many results just grew worse and worse. Though the crisis has been draining and discouraging, there is still “Good News” that we can hold onto today. It is not news of a vaccine, a recovered economy, an election result, a peace treaty in a foreign land, or of Christmas traditions and plans. It is Good News directly from God to man that is far more important and far more lasting than any other news that you will hear in this world. We invite you today to consider the Good News of the Child that was to be born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.