The XM ChallengeThird Advent Sunday – The XM Challenge https://www.rickbergen.net Help Plant 1,000 Churches Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 169531157 Third Advent Sunday https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=517 https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=517#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:37:00 +0000 Rick Bergen http://www.rickbergen.net/2010/12/12/third-advent-sunday-2/ The theme for the Third Advent Sunday in churches is joy. May God surprise you with joy this Christmas. Even if you are expecting it, may it still come in surprising places and ways.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

Here are four more Christmas paintings from our family days in November.


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