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Christmas For the First Time

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Slides for a Christmas sermon (Sequel to advent sermon 'The Story") focusing on hospitality as a key part of the Christmas narrative.

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The Virgin with Angels (The Song of the Angels) by Bouguereau

Angel by Laurie Justus Pace

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Angels bring a message and its meaning

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Given space and time to

communicate

Obedience

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" They left, running, and found Mary and Joseph,

and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was

believing.”

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Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even

knowing it.Hebrews 13.2

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“they left praising God for all that they had heard

and seen”

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“To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

John 1.12

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“Whenever you did it for any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.” Matthew 25.40

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Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Phil 2.5-8

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©Mike Simmonds, GO Ministries LtdNativity Photos taken from: http://alturl.com/ei2yd