Great Places to Be on Christmas Eve

I love large, exuberant Christmas Eve services, with many voices, lot of Christmas carols, pageantry, and color. We attend a megachurch with contemporary worship and wonderful innovative services of great appeal to the unchurched or newly churched. We love it, but we won’t be attending there on Christmas Eve. There won’t be enough of any of the above, so we’ll attend a service at one of the large Baptist churches here in Atlanta that has promised us a massive celebration.



If you’re looking for a great place for a Christmas Eve service, I ran across an article on 10 Great Places to Hear the Christmas Gospel in USA Today. They talked with Christianity Today's online editor Ted Olson; these are his choices:



James Forbes at Riverside Church, New York City



Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, San Antonio



Rick Warren at Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, Calif.



Heidi Husted at Columbia Presbyterian Church, Vancouver, Wash.



Bill Hybels at Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, Ill.



Alistair Begg at Parkside Church, Chagrin Falls, Ohio



Adam Hamilton at Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, Kan.



Ken Hutcherson at Antioch Bible Church, Redmond, Wash.



Robert H. Schuller at Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, Calif.



Bob Russell at Southeast Christian Church, Louisville

Merry Christmas to all.

--James Jewell