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Breaking news! First words of baby Jesus revealed!
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25 Dec 2008Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, O God.’ ” [...]
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The infinite/intimate God.
22 Dec 2008Scripture talks much about the 2 dimensions of God: infinite… intimate. Throughout history God was known as the majestic, mighty, magnificent Lord. He was above and beyond His creation.
But in the nativity story, in the manger, we are introduced to a very personable, vulnerable side of this God. He becomes intimate in our understanding. Some [...]
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Buddy the elf and baby Jesus
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24 Dec 2007I love Christmas movies. The kind you watched as a child and through the years at the holidays. Maybe each Thanksgiving evening, after the feast, football games and nap, you’d crowd the family in to grandma’s living room with a bowl of popcorn and watch the classics on t.v. These movies made you laugh, cry, [...]
‘Twas the nightmare before christmas.
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5 Dec 2007‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all thru the earth, every creature was stirring, beneath the sad curse.
Our burdens and sorrows were hung in despair, in hopes a deliverer might someday care.
The orphans lay sleepless all night on their beds, while visions of family eluded their heads.
And I in my sorrow, my friends in their [...]
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The road to bethlehem.
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28 Nov 2007The road to Bethlehem from Nazareth is about 60 miles.
The road to Bethlehem from heaven was a million miles of God’s love and sacrifice.
Scripture gives us the travelogue of God’s journey to redeem His creatures.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, [...]
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The history of Christmas.
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1 Nov 2006A search on the history of the Christmas holiday yields this timeline…
The earliest Christians do not appear to have commemorated the nativity, but only the baptism and resurrection of Christ and the deaths of the martyrs.
Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD
137 AD - the Bishop of Rome ordered the [...]
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For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel
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