Christmas is a time of year when we take the opportunity to remember Jesus Christ coming to our world. We say coming TO our world, because his birth (which was probably not 25th December, but its as good a time as any to remember the occasion!) - his birth was not his beginning. It was merely his ARRIVAL in our world.
We've been thinking a lot about one of the names given to Jesus Christ - Emmanuel, meaning 'God-with-us'. This is possibly the most significant thought we can ever have. That God would want to be WITH us. It's basically what the whole bible is all about. You can trace the entire story that runs through the different books of the bible in that phrase: God-with-us.
We could spend a long time on that, but for now, here's a video we like, which we used in our Christmas hangout last week. We invited friends, sang carols, played games, ate and drank together, and thought of Jesus...
We've been thinking a lot about one of the names given to Jesus Christ - Emmanuel, meaning 'God-with-us'. This is possibly the most significant thought we can ever have. That God would want to be WITH us. It's basically what the whole bible is all about. You can trace the entire story that runs through the different books of the bible in that phrase: God-with-us.
We could spend a long time on that, but for now, here's a video we like, which we used in our Christmas hangout last week. We invited friends, sang carols, played games, ate and drank together, and thought of Jesus...
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