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Thinking about Christmas

December 7, 2020 By Krisan Marotta

Thinking about Christmas | WednesdayintheWord.com

Thoughts on real meaning of Christmas, gift-giving and celebrations.


Have a Mary Christmas Luke 10:38-42

December 16, 2015

This December you can have a Mary Christmas or a Martha Christmas. In a Martha Christmas you are so frantic doing good things that you miss the best gift of all. In a Mary Christmas you recognize what is truly important and find the best gift of all.

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The Christmas Redeemer

December 9, 2015

There’s nothing like the Christmas season to force you to face the fact that life is often neither joyful nor triumphant. What is there to celebrate about Christmas? We’ll answer that question by looking at one of my favorite Christmas stories: Job.

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How to take the bite out of gift-giving

December 2, 2015

As the oldest woman in the family tree, the success of Christmas settled on my shoulders like a straight jacket. How can any thing that can fits under a Christmas tree transform the life of the recipient from misery to joy?

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An exceptionally good Christmas

December 20, 2013

Alone and cold in a German prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “I think we are going to have an exceptionally good Christmas.” As I sit in warmth and comfort, I wonder at his words.

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Rembrandt: The Adoration of the Shepherds

What is there to celebrate about Christmas?

December 24, 2011

What is there to celebrate about Christmas? I’d like to answer that question by looking at one of my favorite Christmas stories: Job. The hope that sustained Job sitting on that ash heap, scraping at his boils, is the knowledge that he had a Redeemer who was born on Christmas day.

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  4. What is there to celebrate about Christmas?
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