Keep The Christ, In Christmas

Good Morning, Think About This As We Move Through This Week,...With Each Year, There Seems To Be Less CHRIST In CHRISTMAS. "I gotta have that!", "I want that!" or even better,..."I need that!" Have you said any of those recently? Maybe you exhaled those words while gazing breathlessly at some chic clothes or a new computer or that latest hot car as it rolled by. If so, you would not be alone. But if you had them would you really be any happier? Probably not. We have more stuff than ever, yet we are more unhappy than ever. Avoid getting caught up in the buy now, cry later season.

All who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.—John 1:12 (NRSV)

The apostle Paul lived out some great insights into this paradox. In Philippians 4 he provided these thoughts on more and less:

• "I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances" (v.11) — Note that his expectation was not to be happy. Paul was simply satisfied and content with whatever God brought his way.

• "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength" (v.13) — By acknowledging that God is the source of everything he needed in life, Paul was prepared to face the daily grind with a sense of gratitude and wonder. With a perspective like Paul’s, we’re bound to seek less stuff and find more true happiness in Jesus. We all Gotta have that, for real!

Know the REAL reason for the season;

We join with God's children around the earth, to declare our faith, that the world may know and be saved, by Jesus Christ.

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The REAL key to Happiness is not in Collecting,...but rather in Sharing.

" In the end, the only thing that will matter is;
Did we take the road God provided,...at the cost of His Son's Life."