Christmas Eve Service: Turn Off the Dark

There’s a reason for all the various shades of dark blue when it comes to Christmas — especially Christmas cards. A lot of the events happened in the dark. Jesus is born at night. The angels appear to the shepherds at night. The magi saw His Star in the East at night. Joseph has a dream at night where an angel warns him, "Get Mary and the baby out of here - NOW!" But that Christmas night in Bethlehem, the Light of the World was birthed in the darkness, pain and the mess of that cattle stall to TURN OFF the dark; to deal with all the stuff that happens in the dark: loneliness, fear, despair, guilt—and especially death.