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

Angels bring a message and its meaning

Given space and time to

communicate

Obedience

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

and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was

believing.”

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

“they left praising God for all that they had heard

and seen”

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

John 1.12

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

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

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

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