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EBC 3, 2, 1! – On Location in 2025! 

Leading to Worship Sunday December 28, 2025.  

Reading: Luke 2:13-23 

EBC focuses on bringing the Bible into our Everyday Lives, emphasizing God’s Everyday presence by finding connections in our physical world! This week, we consider how God puts us where he needs us; what we do from there depends on us! Click here: Week 52 Video.

 Welcome to this week’s EBC 3,2,1! Three points, two questions, and one action step! 

 Three Points

 • In this passage from Luke 2, the Magi have just left, and Joseph has been warned by an angel in a dream to take Mary and Baby Jesus to Egypt. Herod, angry that he had been tricked by the Magi (and still out to get Baby Jesus), ordered all of the infants around Bethlehem two years old and under to be killed.

 • After Herod died, an angel came again in a dream to Joseph, and Mary, Joseph and Jesus returned from Egypt toward the land of Israel. But in still another dream, Jesus, Mary and Joseph were eventually directed to Galilee, to the town of Nazareth.

 • All three, of Jesus’ time in Egypt, the tragedy involving Bethlehem’s children, and Jesus coming to live in Nazareth, fulfilled the prophets and scripture. 

Two Questions

 • What do you think Joseph imagined it would be like to have the Son of God born into his family? Do you think he was imagining the hardship of a trip to Bethlehem, a flight into Egypt, and a detour to Nazareth? Do we often imagine that when we are going where God wants, it will be “easy sailing” to get there?

 • The angel kept telling Joseph when to leave and where to go, but we don’t hear anything about “instructions” for what to do while there? When you are in a place, how do you know what God wants you to do there? 

 Action Step

 • Have faith that God has put you where he needs you! And go find the Godly thing God wants you to do while you are there!

Don’t like these questions? Do these verses say something different to you? Great! What is it?  

And as always, you are encouraged to find a friend (or two or many) and take an EBC coffee break! Find 15-25 minutes somewhere in the week and share your faith. Have fun finding God this week in your Everyday Life!