Hey. How about some good news? Would you like some? Well, I've got good news for you. You did nothing to make God love you, and you can't do anything to make him stop. That's the clear message of a Psalm I'm looking at today and that I wanna pass on to you. This is a psalm that in Jesus day was a favorite, one that they often sang.

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I just love Christmas Eve. From the time I was a little boy, the trajectory of my whole year was headed towards Christmas Eve. I look forward to this day. And there's so many wonderful verses of scripture that I wish I had time to share with you and so many wonderful Christmas Eve stories that I really hardly know where to begin. But I do want to tell you a Christmas Eve story...

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Immanuel, God is with us. That has been the daily theme of our Advent devotional this year. As the Gospel of Matthew opens with that wonderful Christmas time prophecy of Isaiah that says, Behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Immanuel, which means God is with us. 

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I have a question for you. Where have you seen Jesus coming to you recently? I ask you about seeing Jesus coming to you recently because we are, after all, in the season of Advent, and the word Advent means coming. This is a time that we celebrate Jesus first coming to us as a baby in the manger at Bethlehem. We celebrate Jesus second coming to us in power and great glory, but we also celebrate Jesus coming to us in our everyday lives.

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Well, I don't know about you, but I'm in the Christmas spirit. I mean, after such a strange and difficult year, I am more than ready to celebrate Christmas, and so the other night, I sat down to listen to Christmas carols, I stopped everything else I was doing just to take in the joy and beauty of Christmas music. And you know, there was one song that just reached out and grabbed me, one song that really moved me...

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I just love Advent and Christmas. I mean, I feel like a little boy this time to hear, it's such a wonderful season as we look back and as we look ahead, we look back to Christ's first advent as a tiny, vulnerable, helpless newborn lying in a feeding trough for cattle. And we also are looking ahead, eagerly looking ahead to Christ's second Advent, when he will put right this weary broken world.

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Christmas is the time for giving. I mean, that's what we're told this time of year. I mean, I saw it in a store today. I saw it the other night on TV that Christmas is a time for giving. But you know, I'm not sure that if the people who were there at that first Christmas, I'm not sure that they would have thought of Christmas as a time for giving...

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Some people say that the most important question in life is, Does God exist, but there is an even more important question that I wanna take up today...

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You know I think I began to see through Santa Claus when I was a boy, and one day just before Christmas, I was with my mom in a department store, and there I see Santa Claus, and then I go with my mom to another store... Well, where I see Santa Claus again in that store. But you know, Santa Claus did not look anything like what he looked like in the other store... 

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Proverbs chapter 4 verse 18 says that the path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn which shines brighter and brighter until full day. And for the next few moments I want to talk with you about a man whose life shines brighter and brighter over the centuries...

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