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  • The Queen's Christmas Tree

    Contributed by John Moyer on Dec 16, 2008
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     | 3,454 views

    THE QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS TREE Among the cards we've received over the years, some were those Guidepost Christmas cards with stories in them. This is one of those stories. It was the first Saturday of the Advent season in Europe. The Queen’s royal woodsmen were searching the royal forest for the ...read more

  • Christmas In The Great War  PRO

    Contributed by James Jack on Apr 10, 2009
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     | 2,060 views

    CHRISTMAS IN THE GREAT WAR A famous incident from WWI illustrates the nature of the Christmas season very well. It was December 1914, the first Christmas of the war. Already the stalemate along the western front in France had begun to set in. British, French and German troops faced each other in ...read more

  • Give-Away Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,550 views

    GIVE-AWAY CHRISTMAS Richard Myers tells the story of being a reservist and being called back to active duty in Fort Monmouth, NJ, canceling his Christmas plans with his family in IN. Feeling low, he turned on the radio and heard an appeal from the Post Office for volunteers to answer letters sent ...read more

  • Scrubs Christmas Voiceover  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 10, 2009
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    SCRUBS CHRISTMAS VOICEOVER The cast of the TV Show Scrubs have done a number of satirical looks at various things. The did a voice over of "Charlie Brown’s Christmas" and Dr. Cox does the Linus soliloquy which originally was the story of Christmas from the gospel. This post-modern version [IMHO] ...read more

  • Hanukkah Vs. Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2009
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     | 3,785 views

    HANUKKAH VS. CHRISTMAS In his book The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey recounts an episode of the TV show Thirtysomething in which Hope, a Christian, argues with her husband Michael, a Jew, about the holidays. "Why do you even bother with Hanukkah?" she asks. "Do you really believe a handful of ...read more

  • The Explosive Christmas Story  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,874 views

    THE EXPLOSIVE CHRISTMAS STORY James Martin tells about a trip to the Holy Land. While there, he buys a nativity set for his Sunday School class. It was carved out of olive wood in the town of Bethlehem and had all the traditional figures: sheep and oxen; wise men and the shepherds; Mary, Joseph, ...read more

  • Christmas Preaches A Faith

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,351 views

    CHRISTMAS PREACHES A FAITH A 2001 newspaper article explained that the president celebrated many faiths during the holidays – not only Christmas, but also presiding over a Jewish Hanukkah celebration and commemorating the end of Ramadan in a Washington mosque. Ari Fleischer, presidential ...read more

  • Prophecies, Religions And Christmas

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 19, 2010
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    PROPHECIES, RELIGIONS AND CHRISTMAS The prophecies of the Old Testament were part of what "held up" the tree of Jesus’ and supported His claims to be Messiah. Now, that’s not true of other men who’ve founded other world religions. For example: About 500 years before Christ was born, a man was ...read more

  • Doing Christmas Differently

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
     | 1,403 views

    DOING CHRISTMAS DIFFERENTLY Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, tells of his pastor in Portland Oregon at Imago Dei Community. He and some his friend decided they wanted to do Christmas differently. So he stood up in front of his congregation and challenged them not to go into debt that ...read more

  • Making Christmas Special  PRO

    Contributed by Sam Higgs on Dec 1, 2011
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     | 4,782 views

    MAKING CHRISTMAS SPECIAL In the months leading up to the Christmas season, Dan had lost his job. Well, in the city he lived in, most of the workers had to relocate with the company or face unemployment. Dan was one of the unlucky ones who had not been with the company long enough to be asked ...read more

  • The Christmas Card Tradition

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 20, 2011
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    THE CHRISTMAS CARD TRADITION A British businessman is credited with creating the Christmas card in 1843 — as a way to save time. Too busy to write a personal holiday greeting, Henry Cole hired a well-known London artist to design a card he could send to all his acquaintances. Louis Prang, a German ...read more

  • A Christmas Letter To God  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 14, 2012
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     | 4,879 views

    A CHRISTMAS LETTER TO GOD A small boy was writing a letter to God about the Christmas presents he wanted. "I've been good for six months now," he wrote. After a moment's reflection, he crossed out "six months" and wrote "three." After a pause he changed that to "two weeks." There was another pause ...read more

  • A Mother's Christmas Prayer

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
     | 2,252 views

    A MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS PRAYER On Christmas Day, Mike Nicholas, a tall and slim young man with dark hair was making his way south on I-85 just below High Point, NC trying to hitch a ride. For two years, he hadn't been home. His family had heard nothing from him. He and his mother had a disagreement ...read more

  • A Christ-Less Christmas.

    Contributed by Danny Janes on Dec 7, 2012
     | 3,858 views

    One of the most enjoyable jobs I ever had before entering the ministry was when I worked for Sears as a salesman in the Men’s Department. I worked there while I was in high school, and part of the time while I was in college. And always the most memorable night of the year to be scheduled to work ...read more

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 28, 2012
     | 4,264 views

    Television executives tried to reject The Charlie Brown Christmas story because it has the true story of Christmas. Charlie Brown has picked out an ugly tree, everyone laughs at him including Snoopy, and he screams out for someone to tell him the real meaning of Christmas. Linus begins to recite ...read more

  • Pulling Together At Christmas

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 2,707 views

    One morning in December 2009, Bill McDonald read in the paper that a local man, Joe Day, was sick with small-cell lung cancer. That meant Day couldn’t assemble the magnificently lit, handcrafted Christmas displays that had made his house in Versailles, Indiana, an annual holiday pilgrimage site for ...read more

  • Christmas Giving To Others

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
     | 3,890 views

    Ann Voskamp writes, “It’s almost a dozen years now, nothing under the Christmas tree here. Strange, the way children teach adults. It started at bedtime one year, I do remember that. Smoothing back hair, kissing foreheads, pulling up the blankets over my kids. Tucking them in. Prayers said all in a ...read more

  • Christmas Present Unrealized

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 25, 2019
     | 2,831 views

    This is a true story. Freddie and John were fortunate enough to have a season ticket to watch Chelsea soccer in the UK. They could not help noticing that there was always a spare seat next (B14) to them and they had a friend who would love to buy a season ticket, especially if all three could have ...read more

  • Is This A Christmas Present Or What?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Dec 21, 2019
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     | 2,244 views

    One great blessing of Christmas is presents. Of course, at my age, I am not too interested in what I am getting but rather what I am giving. I cannot think of one thing I really would want. I got everything I need even though some of it may be old and outdated. As long as it works, I'm happy ...read more

  • Christmas Sermon Outlines

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 21, 2020
     | 4,498 views

    The People (for unto us) The Point in Time (is born this day) The Place (in the city of David) The Person (a Savior) The Prominence (which is Christ the Lord) The Manger Held the Predicted Lamb The Manger Held the ...read more

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