Christmas at Discovery

The Word Became Flesh

December 20-21, 2025

 

 

2026 Word of the Year:

 

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

John 1:1 (NIV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 

 

The “Word” (Greek–Logos)

in Jesus.

 

 

Hebrews 1:1–2 (NIV) In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.

 

John 1:2-3 (NIV) He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:9–13 (NIV) The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

 

John 1:14 (NIV) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us…

 

Exodus 25:8 (NIV) Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

 

Colossians 2:9 (CSB) For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ.

 

John 1:14 (NIV) …We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

 

1. Jesus is .

 

Colossians 1:15–17 (NIV) The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

2. Jesus came .

 

Matthew 1:23 (NIV) The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means “God with us”).

 

Hebrews 4:15 (NIV) For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

3. Jesus confronts .

 

Matthew 16:13–16 (NIV) When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

 

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

 

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

 

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

 

John 8:24 (NIV) If you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.

4. Jesus gives .

 

John 10:10 (NIV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

 

• Commit to by Jesus.

 

Ephesians 4:11–13 (NIV) So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Go ALL IN.

 

 

John 1:12–13 (NIV) Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.