BEHOLD PT.4 | Origin Stories | Jordan Hodges

Christian Faith Center

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan continues his series BEHOLD.
The incarnation! God becoming flesh! Such a central and powerful part of our doctrine and beliefs!
Today we conclude our series Behold….. With a profound topic I cannot wait to explore! Origin stories!

Origin Stories! Everyone has an origin story! It’s the story of your beginning! Where you came from. What you went through!

Here’s a few origin stories you might find interesting:

Growing up so poor her family literally made her clothes from potato sacks. She was shuffled around to rural farms and boarding

homes and suffered abuse and teen pregnancy. You might know about her? Her name is Oprah Winfrey.

Growing up in a government housing projects watching his father spiral into what he describes as a “broken man” from a hard life.

This man says he carry’s this weight of his impoverished childhood with him every day. His name is Howard Shultz and he’s the

CEO of Starbucks.

Dropping out of school at age 10 to become an indentured servant to a print maker, this man was 1 of 17 children in his family. He

would go on to be one of the greatest inventors in history for the era and be known as a founding father of our nation. His name is

Benjamin Franklin.

Born in a one-roomed weavers cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland. This man emigrated to America with his family when he was 13

because of their extreme poverty. His first job in Pennsylvania was as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week. But, he went on to dominate the

US steel industry, amassing a personal fortune. By his death, he had given away $4.8 billion. Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919)

This man grew up in the Great Depression of the 1930s, he had to milk the family cow and do numerous odd jobs to help his family

survive. After the war, he took out a loan to buy a small grocery store. He went on to build this into the giant Walmart supermarket

chain, amassing a fortune of over $23 billion. Samuel Walton (1918 – 1992)

I love hearing origin stories! But none of these compare to the origin story we are celebrating this week!

Christmas is the Origin story of Jesus Christ, The Son of God.

His origin story is not at all what we would expect the origin story of Gods Son to be like! But there is much we can glean from it!