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Unwrapping The Christmas Present PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2003 (message contributor)
UNWRAPPING THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
“To get ready for Christmas, God undressed. God stripped off his finery and appeared – how embarrassing – naked on the day he was born. . .
God could not be God-with-us if he wasn’t flesh...
As evangelicals we have focused on the saving death of Christ but thrown out the Incarnation in our Christmas wrappings.
As we cover God with Christmas, we hide what is most distinctive about Christianity. And this is the tragedy: What many don’t know about Christianity is that God has chosen to identify with their pain, their humanness, their flesh.
This is what we’ve lost as we’ve...
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A Teenager Noticed This In His Own Life And ... PRO
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This Past Week I Was Getting My Oil Changed And ... PRO
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A Roman Catholic Priest […] Was Making His Way ... PRO
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They Need A Father PRO
Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 31, 2003
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