| Christmas is probably one of the greatest
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| | Christian's Lord and Savior. This is
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| times of the year for people of the
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| | supposed to be a celebration, yes. But
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| Christian faith. It's one of those rare
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| | the celebration is supposed to be about
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| holidays that actually starts long before
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| | the King of Kings, not about giving
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| the day begins. In the weeks leading up
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| | presents and watching "Rudolph The Red
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| to Christmas, usually right after
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| | Nosed Reindeer" for the one-hundredth
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| Thanksgiving, Christians begin their
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| | time. It's not about stuffing ourselves
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| shopping and decorating. The tree goes
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| | with turkey and Christmas cookies. It's
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| up, the nativity scenes go up and the
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| | about giving thanks for God giving
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| shopping sprees all over the globe take
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| | Christians his only son, our Lord and
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| up hours of their day.And then the
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| | Savior.Yes, many of us have lost the real
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| actually day comes, which begins the
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| | meaning of Christmas. It's so easy to do
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| night before with Christmas Eve services
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| | with all the commercialism of the day.
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| and caroling out in the streets. After
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| | Much of the problem is the media.
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| that the gifts get placed under the tree
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| | Children put on the TV and see all these
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| and the milk and cookies go out for
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| | ads for toys and seeing Santa live at
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| Santa. On Christmas morning the gifts
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| | some shopping mall and that's all they
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| get opened by all the wide eyed children,
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| | can think about. And how do you tell
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| followed by a yummy Christmas breakfast.
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| | your five year old that Christmas is not
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| Later on everyone goes to the
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| | about Santa and Toys? How do you tell
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| grandparents to have a big Christmas
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| | him it's not about Christmas trees,
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| dinner with all the trimmings. More
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| | eggnog and watching Christmas movies
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| presents are exchanged. Everyone laughs
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| | about characters that don't even
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| and sings and has a wonderful time.When
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| | exist?The truth is, it doesn't have to be
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| the night ends we all go home, have a few
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| | all or nothing. We don't have to prevent
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| last Christmas cookies and finally, after
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| | our children from having the things at
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| a long day of partying and having a jolly
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| | Christmas that they look forward to. All
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| time, we go to bed.And with all of that,
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| | we need to do is make sure that some time
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| you can count the number of times the
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| | during the day, we sit down with our
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| name Jesus was mentioned on one hand and
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| | children and teach them the real meaning
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| have about four fingers left over. The
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| | of Christmas. Read the Christmas story
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| only prayer of the day was probably grace
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| | to them from the Bible, or from a good
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| at dinner.This isn't exactly what the
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| | children's book about the subject. Make
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| apostles had in mind. It certainly isn't
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| | them understand that Christmas is an
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| what Jesus himself had in mind.The truth
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| | important day, not because we get gifts,
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| is, many of us have lost the real meaning
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| | but because God gave us the greatest gift
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| of Christmas, the birth of the
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| | of all.
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