LCC Bulletin December 14, 2025

Welcome to Liberty Christian Center

Today's message: Escape the Shame – Pastor Derek

Next Week: Brockton Adult Teen Challenge Choir

This week:

Christmas Family Photos—Once again, Steve & Andrea are making themselves available to take lovely pics of your family in front of a delightful Christmas backdrop. Please see Andrea to sign up for a timeslot on after services this week and next Sunday. Christmas with Liberty—Tonight at 6:30PM. Celebrate the birth of Christ with us! It’s going to be a glorious night of music, skits, humor and the incredible story of a Savior come to earth. Bible Study KiDz Club are taking a break for a few weeks. They will resume on Wed., January 7. Youth Christmas Party—This Thurs., Dec. 18, 7PM is the youth Christmas Party which also serves as the Beta test for our Gingerbread Cottage escape room game. Ladies’ Cookie Exchange—Sat., Dec. 20, 1PM at Karen’s home, 5 Thrasher Ave. Bring your best cookie recipe to share with the ladies and take home an assortment of cookies to sample and share with your family.

Upcoming:

Adult Teen Challenge Choir—Sun., Dec. 21, 10:30AM—In next Sunday’s service, our special guest ministry will be from the Brockton Men’s home of Adult Teen Challenge. LCC has a long history of support for ATC because we believe in what God is doing through this wonderful ministry. The Greatest Escape at Christmas: Jesus Christ, the precious Son of God, came to earth to live and die to make a way for us to escape the penalty for our sins. Christmas at LCC this year has this unique theme in all our messages as well as a mini-escape room spiritual experience. Christmas Eve Family Communion—Book a 20min slot for your family to have communion with one of the pastors on Christmas Eve. Share these deeply meaningful moments focusing on the true meaning of Christmas

Christmas Eve Family Fun—Book a 15min Gingerbread-themed Escape Room for your family just for fun—before or after your family communion time. (A few additional slots are open on Sat., Dec. 27 & Sun., Dec. 28).

Contributions to be credited in calendar year 2025 need to be in by Sunday, Dec. 28.

Lord of the Messy Manger - Dr. Ralph Martin

If you think your life is an utter disaster, that God could never use a life as messed up as yours, think again. Let me point you to some familiar Bible stories.

Joseph's brothers hate him so much that they sell him as a slave, but "but God uses it to save thousands from starvation.

Jacob is a liar and a cheat and has to flee for his life. He sleeps out in the open with only a rock for a pillow. But when he wakes with a vision of angels, he says, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it."

It was the leanest Christmas of our lives, but the one I'll remember the best. It was about giving something personal to the one I cherished and receiving something special from the one who loved me.

Your life may appear well-ordered on the surface, but underneath there may be disarray. Brokenness, pain, shame. Things you seem utterly incapable of fixing. The good news, my friend, is that God is bigger than your messy life. He is not impotent. He is not confined by your boundaries. He is God! And he is unafraid of working in messy situations. In fact, he gets a kick out of surprising us with his amazing grace.

What are your points of pain? What is the mess that you are struggling with? Maybe, just maybe, God is able to take your mess, and out of it bring blessing.

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28) How bad can it get? A girl gets pregnant. Her parents are utterly shamed. Her fiancé -- not the baby's father -- is ready to dump her. And then he is told, "Do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit." How bad can it get? The girl is in labor, far from home with only a cave-barn where she can have her baby. The only place to put her newborn is a manger. A cattle trough. The straw in the manger was neither fresh nor fragrant. Life was a mess -- but God was in it. God sees Mary with her tiny infant and sends a host of angels to announce the birth. "Behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." Luke 2:10-11 The messy manger is itself a sign from God. Is your life a mess? Then let this be a sign to you. Your very good news is that the God of the messy manger, the resurrected Christ of the cruel cross, and the Holy Spirit, in whom you live and move and have your being, are able to break through in your life, begin to clean up your mess, bless you too. And that -- like the messy manger -- will be a wonder all its own.

Ongoing

Bible Study & KiDz Club— Wednesdays, 7PM! Bible Study KiDz Club are taking a break for a few weeks. They will resume on Wed., January 7.

Join us for Midweek Bible Study & KiDz Club Ministry - We are looking forward to meeting everyone on Wednesday nights with Bible studies for adults and KiDz ministry for kids ages 4 - grade 5. Wednesday nights at 7pm. 

Join us on Thursday nights at 7pm, with our Youth Group.

KiDz Church - Every Sunday. We have a powerful ministry for kids at 10:30AM. We have a small group with plenty of room to spread out and be safe while we learn more about God and His will for our lives. KiDz Church is for ages K - 5th grade.

Nursery & Toddler room ministry for our little ones. Please consider taking one week out of the month to minister to God's little ones. We have little tables and chairs set up in the nursery area for the little ones too young for KiDz Church with activities to keep them occupied so you can be in the service.

We are excited to be able to welcome all people into our spaces. God is doing a great work within our community.

If you are unable to attend service in person, come join us online! Click on the link for more information about seeing online services and Bible studies, www.youtube.com/c/TauntonLibertyCC .

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Our congregation is following the CDC's guidelines regarding masking. You can see that reommendations here. We continue to ask that you also social distance and practice excellent hand hygiene.

Please stay home if you or a family member fits into either one of these categories below.

If you test positive for COVID, please contact our church office so that we can pray for you.

One of the following: Fever of 100.4 or greater, new onset of dry cough, onset of shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, new onset of loss of taste or smell.

Two of the following: chills longer than two hours, congestion and/or runny nose, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, nausesa, diarrhea, or vomiting.

Online Services: You can watch live by clicking on YouTube:  or Facebook live:

SEE EVERYONE ON SUNDAY!