Thursday, December 04, 2008

Please Come Home for Christmas


Bells will be ringing this sad sad New Years
Oh what a Christmas to have the blues
My baby's gone I have no friends
To wish me greetings once again

Choirs will be singing Silent Night
Christmas carols by candlelight
Please come home for Christmas
Please come home for Christmas
If not for Christmas by New Years night

Friends and relations send salutations
Sure as the stars shine above
But this is Christmas yes Christmas my dear
The time of year to be with the ones you love

So won't you tell me you'll never more roam
Christmas and new Years will find you home
There'll be no more sorrow no grief and pain
And I'll be happy, happy once again
Oh there'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain
And I'll be happy, Christmas once again

We are hearing this song written by Charles Brown all over the radio as we get closer and closer to Christmas. So why not hear it this Sunday at church as well? After all, the words fit exactly what our theme for the morning will be. Though most of us are planning for a MERRY Christmas, for many it will be nothing short of a MESSY Christmas due to the fact that they are facing some very lonely times this holiday season.

Some are lonely because they have lost a loved one since last Christmas!

Some are lonely because they have a loved one overseas in harms way this Christmas!

Some are lonely because they will be separated from their family this Christmas!

Some are lonely because though they are surrounded by people, they have no real friend!

Are you lonely and without much hope of a MERRY Christmas? Then I want to invite you to come home to Grace Church this Sunday as we see that Jesus is a Christmas gift for the lonely. Do you know someone who is lonely this holiday season? Then be sure to give them a personal invitation to join us at Grace Church this Sunday morning for one of our three services with drama, music and message (8:30; 10:00; 11:30)!

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