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Christmas
Contributed by Jim Erwin on Dec 12, 2007 (message contributor)
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1. Legacy
Contributed on Dec 12, 2007
Christmas is about what you hand down from one person to another. You leave a legacy for someone else to follow.
Ruth 4 - Legacy Christmas is about leaving a legacy. Let me define what I mean by the word legacy. One definition for legacy is this: Something handed down or inherited from generation to generation. Christmas is about what you hand down from one person to another. You leave a legacy for ...read more
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2. True Love
Contributed on Dec 12, 2007
Christmas is about true love.
Ruth 3 - True Love INTRODUCTION: The Princess Bride - how I love this movie and I think it is the best story of all time. True Love In The Princess Bride, Westley is driven by one goal—to return to the love of his life, Buttercup. Westley does whatever it takes for his one "true love." He ...read more
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3. Romance
Contributed on Dec 12, 2007
Building better relationships with your spouse
Ruth 2 - Romance The great German poet Goethe said of this book, "we have nothing so lovely in the whole range of epic and idyllic poetry." Goethe thought Ruth was a romantic story. Many other people have commented on the beauty of the book of Ruth because it is a romantic story. Today we see ...read more
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4. Tragedy
Contributed on Dec 12, 2007
Tragedy can cause me to be better or bitter.
Ruth 1 - Tragedy We are beginning a new series for Advent. Advent means "coming towards" in Latin. Advent means the days approaching the coming of the Christ on earth. We take these four weeks to celebrate the coming of Christ years ago. So you may be wondering why I am having us read from the ...read more