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                    MEANING OF CHRISTMAS? 
A television interviewer was walking the streets of Tokyo at Christmas time. Much as in America, Christmas shopping is a big commercial success in Japan. The interviewer stopped one young woman on the sidewalk, and asked, "What is the meaning of Christmas?" 
Laughing, she
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Christmas means that…
He descended that we might ascend (John 14:3)
He was born that we might be born again (John 3:3)
He became a servant that we might become sons (Galatians 4:6-7)
He was forsaken that we might not be forsaken (Matthew 28:20)
He died that we might live (John 5:24)
He came down
                    
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                    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE TRUE CHRISTMAS LONGING
C.S. Lewis writes in “Mere Christianity”:
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give
                    
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                    Contributed by David Rogers on Dec 15, 2008
                
                
                
                    The True Christmas Gift
Twas the night before the birth, 
when all the world did not know what was about to happen
Not a creature was stirring, and all men were napping
The rabbis were safe and secure in their knowledge
Old Herod, the king, the Lord he refused to acknowledge
King Herod was
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 27, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [True Meaning of Repentance, Citation: Lesslie Newbigin, Mission in Christ’s Way, pp. 2-3]
In Mission in Christ’s Way Lesslie Newbigin (d. 1996), long-time missionary to India, writes about the true meaning of repentance:
I remember once visiting a village in the Madras diocese. There was no road
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on Dec 23, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Recently I received an e-mail which dealt beautifully with the true meaning of Christmas. The theme of the message focused on children and was entitled, “Teach the Children.” Let me share it with you this morning. This is what it said:
“I just finished the household chores for the night and was
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Here is a parody of Luke’s account of the birth of Christ, that really underscores just how far our world has let the true meaning of Christmas slip away from them.
	"And there were in the same country children keeping watch over there stockings by the fireplace.  And lo! Santa Claus came upon
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "There is love at Christmas because Christmas was born of love. Let us, each one, keep alive
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TEACH THE CHILDREN
Just a week before Christmas I had a visitor.  This is how it happened...
I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house.  I opened the door to the front room and to my surprise, Santa himself
                    
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