Welcome to Hall Green
Welcome to the website of Hall Green Baptist Church. For those of you in a hurry, details of our meetings can be found via the ‘What’s On’ link above. For those of you with time to browse, we would especially recommend ‘The Word’ section of the site which is updated most weeks and includes last Sunday's sermons in audio. If we can be of any assistance, please get in touch through the email link on the right of each page.
The Best Christmas, Ever
We greet each other with a cheerful “Happy Christmas”, but wouldn’t it be great if we could say in the New Year, that really was a happy Christmas?
Here are a few steps we can take following the bible’s advice to get the best out of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
- It begins by facing up to reality, and acknowledging that God is a living God who made us, and only ever asked us to love him with all our heart, soul, and mind, and love our neighbour as ourselves.
- Acknowledging that we are answerable to him, and owning up to the fact that we have failed to meet his requirements, making us guilty as sinners who are daily getting nearer to judgement day.
- Acknowledging that no amount of trying to be good enough to be accepted by God through being religious or doing good things will ever get us into heaven.
- Listening to God’s solution given at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. “I bring you good news of great joy to you and to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David, a Saviour who is Christ the Lord.”
But a Saviour from what? The bible’s answer is a saviour to rescue us from the consequences of our sins against God, and his impending judgement upon us. Now that may be no big deal to people who think they are good enough already and don’t need saving, but to the rest of us who acknowledge we have fallen short of God’s standard this is a source of great joy.
Thank you God for the best present ever; a Saviour who deals with sin, so that anyone at all can repent and trust him to receive his forgiveness.
Now that makes for a Happy Christmas.
Mick Lockwood - Pastor