At our Christmas Eve Service tonight, a woman sang a song that really touched all of us. How would we know that 1 Baby would change everything for ever and ever.
Millions of people around the world today, 2000 years later are celebrating the Birth of Christ.
Our calendars are based on the chronological calender of Before Christ and After…
Lives of millions and millions have been changed and saved due to this one baby. A baby born in a manger so long ago that is still as close to our hearts as it was to the shepards who witnessed it so long ago.
The Great I Am came to save you and me.
My wife and I went out eat after the service and we saw a family celebrating the togetherness of the season. Is it not the people getting together that means so much at christmas? If there is peace in your family then these gatherings are awesome. For years I sought and longed for these gatherings, but they have not happened much as I have 2 Jehovah Witnesses in my family including my Mother. Then 2 other members are thousands of miles away and getting together at Christmas is just not important for them.
Anyways, this family that we saw was just having a great time and we noticed that a baby was with them an apparently asleep even though the noice of this family rose with laughter and love.
When they got ready to leave, the baby woke and I immediately thought about the message at church and the baby that changed everything. I struck up a conversation with the mother of the baby, and she invited us over to see this 2 week old baby. And we all agreed that a baby changes everything in our own lives, but baby Jesus changed the lives of millions and millions of people.
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December 23, 2009
Philippians 3 from the living Bible
Whatever happens, dear friends, be glad in the Lord. I never get tired of telling you this and it is good for you to hear it again and again.
Watch out for those wicked men — dangerous dogs, I call them — who say you must be circumcised to be saved. For it isn’t the cutting of our bodies that makes us children of God; it is the worshiping him with our spirits. That is the only true circumcision. We Christians glory in what Jesus Christ has done for us and realize that we are helpless to save ourselves.
Yet if anyone ever had reason to hope that he could save himself, it would be I. If others could be saved by what they are, certainly I could!
For I went through the Jewish initiation ceremony when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure blooded Jewish home that was a branch of the old original Benjamin family. So I was a real Jew if there ever was one! What’s more, I was a member of the Pharisees, who demanded the strictest obedience to every Jewish law and custom. And Sincere? Yes, so much so that I greatly persecuted the church; and tried to obey every Jewish rule and regulation right down to the very last point.
But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile — now I have thrown them all away so that I can put my trust and hope in Christ alone. Yes everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless game of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have put aside all else counting it worth less than nothing, in order that I can have Christ, and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith — counting on Christ alone. Now I have given up everything else — I have found it to be the only way really to know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought him back to life again and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with him.
So, whatever it takes, I will be one who lives in the newness of life of those who are alive from the dead.
I don’t mean to say that I am perfect. I haven’t learned all I should even yet, but I keep working towards that day when I will finally be all that Christ made me for and wants me to be.
No, dear brothers, I am still not all I should be but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing; forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strained to reach the end of the race and received the prize for which God is calling us up to heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us.
I hope all of you who are mature Christians will see eye to eye with me on these things, and if you disagree on some point I believe God will make it plain to you — if you fully obey the truth you have.
Dear brothers, pattern your lives after mine and notice who else lives up to my example. For I have told you often before, and I say it again now with tears in my eyes, there are many who walk along the Christian road who are really enemies of the cross of Christ. Their future is eternal loss, for their God is the appetite: they are proud of what they should be ashamed of; and all they think about is this life here on earth.
But our homeland is in heaven, with our Savior of the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven; and we are looking forward to his return from their.
When he comes back he will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use conquer all else everywhere.
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Well it is just about the end of Thanksgiving and the beginning of Black Friday. Is there any greater contrast of days that fall back to back like these on our calender? I don’t think so.
Today was one of the best days this year. Today was Thanksgiving. Today I realized that this has become my favorite holiday. It took me 44 years to pick a winner, and I am picking Thanksgiving as the best holiday of the year.
Why?
Each Year for the past…umm..15 years I have gone down to my Dad’s and Step-moms beautiful old farmhouse in Shapliegh Maine. The house brims with stlye and character from the moment you pull into the driveway. When you walk in you see one of the most beautiful cast iron stoves on the planet as the dominating feature of the kitchen/dinning area.
The smells of the cooking food is just amazing….
The love that was flowing in the house as we gathered was amazing. Love filled the room, laughter, conversation, hugs, and smiles all gave way to Thanks and blessings. We are blessed to have the family we do. We have gathered year after year and for some reason this year was so peaceful and wonderful. 11 of us gathered around the table and enjoyed each other and a boutiful supply of food.
We talked and shared stories as we ate and smiles and laughter and joy dominated the air that we breathed.
In about 34 minutes from now as I write this the clock will strike midnight and the end of Thanksgiving and the beginning of Black Friday. The Biggest and baddest self indulging shopping day of the year. People are already there I am sure. Lined up at the doors ready to get the deal of the century. I am sure many gave up their time to be with their family so they could secure their spot in line to make sure they were one of the first people through the door to snatch up the $199 Computer system, or the Flip Camera for only $99.00 but only for the first 100 people.
No worries about who got what for Christmas and I hope she likes it and man look at what he got…Blah Blah Blah…all the pressures of Christmas and tension around shopping has replaced the real reason for the season–The Birth of Our Savior has been forgetten and removed from much of society. It has been replaced by the insanity of Black Friday and the Now Savage Frenzy of millions of people who are right now lining the parking lots of best buys and many other stores ready to litterally KILL to get into the stores to get one of only 5 laptops at best buy that will be available for only $197.00…People will die again this year as they rage and race and trample anyone in their way.
Scratch That…I just looked up online and here is the deals at best buy on Black Friday Hot off the press.
Best Buy Black Friday deals are available now. Today, Best Buy allowed Black Friday bargain hunters to purchase special Black Friday doorbuster deals early online. Tomorrow, stores open at 5:00 am and locations are going to hand out tickets to those waiting to enter the Best Buy location starting around 3:00 am, at their discretion. Then, shoppers have free reign on the Best Buy Black Friday deals.
What are the best Best Buy Black Friday deals?
$197 HP Laptop
$399.99 Sony Vaio
$999.99 46″ Samsung TV
$34.99 select video games, including Madden games
$299.99 Dynex 32″ TV
$299.99 PS3 120GB Hard Drive
$49.99 Insignia 10 mp Digital camera
All of the doorbusters EXCEPT THE $197 HP LAPTOP are available online right now. There are limited quantities of the $197 laptop, but each store will have a minimum of 5 laptops. Only 1 laptop per customer can be purchased.
I am sure people have been at the best buys all day today as we gathered at the table to share a meal, many others were in their sleeping bags and completely missed Thanksgiving so they could get the 46″ Samsung Tv For Only 999…or the HP Laptop for only $197.00
Let’s take a look at a few videos from previous years..
This man could not be saved..
A Riot at A Walmart
These are just a few of many you will find on youtube.com
People Giving Thanks And Sharing a Meal VS Insane people siting out in the cold for 2 days so they can be first inline for a PSP3?
What is going on here?
The Bible Calls It Covetousness…
Jeremiah 22:17 says… “Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innoncent Blood.
Luke 12:15 says…”And he(Jesus) said to them, Take Heed and beware of Covetousness, for ones life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.
Romans 7:7 Says…”What shall we day then? Is the law sin? Certianally Not! On the Contray, I would not have know sin except through the law, for I would not have known Covetousness unless the law had said, “You Shall Not Covet.”
Ephesians 5:2-3…ANd Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us, as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-Smelling Aroma. But fornication and all uncleannes or covetousness, let it not even be named among you.
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
The last of the Ten Commandments says…You shall not covet your neighbors house;you shall not covet your neighbors wife, …
So millions and millions are right now flocking to the stores with the faded memory of Thanksgiving quickly seeping out of their minds and it is being replaced by Covetousness.
I won’t be joining them, as a matter of fact my wife wants to seed the money where it is needed…So does my step-mom. They are tired of the Christmas we have created here in America.
The Stark Contrast of the Message Of Christ Vs The Message of Satan…One is Day and light, the other is darkness and evil…
Thanksgiving is beautiful and lovely…Black Friday is Frantic and insane…
Thanksgiving brings people together in blessings and love…Black Friday brings anger, greed, fights and even Death.
Humm..Which one wins? If you belong to Christ than it is thanksgiving, if you belong to the World, Black Friday wins…
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Hebrews 11:1
Faith is not mind science…its not tony robbins
Faith is active confidence in Gods Word…
Faith is believing the Word of God. Hebrews 11 1 says faith is substance.
Read more on Faith is not Part of The Christian Life…It is the WHOLE THING (James Mcdonald)…
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Psalms 63 From The Living Bible and Word of God
Free Audio Bible Readings
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