going home for the holidays that one present that you really wanted

Going Home for the Holidays

That one present that you really wanted

Mary, the mother of Jesus

Charlie: Rats! (sad). Nobody sent me a Christmas card today.I know nobody likes me.

Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?

Lucy: Boy, I love the beautiful sound of cold, hard, cash, that beautiful, beautiful sound. Nickels, nickels, nickels. That beautiful sound of plunking nickels. Now what

seems to be your trouble?

Charlie: I know I should be happy during Christmas, but I can’t seem to manage it.

Lucy: Incidentally, I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. It happens to me every year. I never get what I really want. I

always get a lot of stupid toys, or a bicycle, or clothes, or something like that.

Charlie: What is it you want?

Lucy: Real Estate.

Charlie: What’s going on here?

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Charlie Brown: Even my own dog has gone commercial…

“The main thing

is to keepthe main

thingthe main thing.”

What’s NOT the main thing…


1.Commercialism


1.Commercialism

2.“The Perfect Christmas”


1.Commercialism


3.Gift Receiving

TOP TEN THINGS TO SAY ABOUT A CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU DON'T LIKE


6. Gosh. I hope this never catches fire! It is fire

season though. There are lots of unexplained

fires.

7. This is perfect for wearing around the

basement.8. If I hadn’t recently shot up 4 sizes

that would've fit.9. Well, well, well …

10. Hey! There's a gift!


1. “I really don't deserve this.”2. To think -- I got this the year I vowed to give all my gifts to charity.3. Sadly, tomorrow I enter theFederal Witness Protection Program.4. I love it -- but I fear the jealousy it will inspire.5. If the dog

buries it, I'll be furious!


1.Commercialism


3.Gift Receiving

4.Gift Giving


1.Commercialism


3.Gift Receiving

4.Gift Giving

5.Making other people happy


1.Commercialism


3.Gift Receiving

4.Gift Giving


6.Getting to do whatever you want to

do


1.Commercialism


3.Gift Receiving

4.Gift Giving


6.Getting to do whatever you want to

do

7.Snow

What is the Main Thing?


John 1:1-141In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was

with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made

that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.


John 1:1-146There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming

into the world.


John 1:1-1410He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but

his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,

he gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of natural descent, nor of

human decision or a husband’s will,but born of God.


John 1:1-1414The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of

the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.


1. Main Thing = Word became fleshJohn 1:1-14

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was

with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made

that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.


2. John (and you and I) are not that light!John 1:1-14

6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming

into the world.


3. Do you receive him?John 1:1-14

10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but

his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,

he gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of natural descent, nor of

human decision or a husband’s will,but born of God.


4. The Word ‘moved into the neighborhood’!

John 1:1-1414The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of

the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Linus explaining true meaning of Christmas video

– found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeVDOu2_Fuc

Gospel Application

Gospel Application

Like Charlie Brown, are you struggling today with the real meaning of

Christmas?

Gospel Application

Like Charlie Brown, are you struggling today with the real meaning of

Christmas?

Are you FIGHTING to keep the main thing the main thing?

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