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Today we celebrate and rejoice. Blessings to you and yours. I pray you find Jesus in 2020. December 25 His Birth and Our New Birth By Oswald Chambers "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us." —Matthew 1:23 His Birth in History. “…that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God (Luke 1:35). Jesus Christ was born into this world, not from it. He did not emerge out of history; He came into history from the outside. Jesus Christ is not the best human being the human race can boast of— He is a Being for whom the human race can take no credit at all. He is not man becoming God, but God Incarnate— God coming into human flesh from outside it. His life is the highest and the holiest entering through the most humble of doors. Our Lord’s birth was an advent— the appearance of God in human form. His Birth in Me. “My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you…” (Galatians 4:19). Just as our Lord came into human history from outside it, He must also come into me from outside. Have I allowed my personal human life to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God? I cannot enter the realm of the kingdom of God unless I am born again from above by a birth totally unlike physical birth. “You must be born again” (John 3:7). This is not a command, but a fact based on the authority of God. The evidence of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that “Christ is formed” in me. And once “Christ is formed” in me, His nature immediately begins to work through me. God Evident in the Flesh. This is what is made so profoundly possible for you and for me through the redemption of man by Jesus Christ.

Hi Joe, Mostly true. However, Trump did get elected. Jerry Baumchen

Jesus was a Capricorn He ate organic food He believed in love and peace And never wore no shoes Long hair, beard and sandals And a funky bunch of friends Reckon we'd just nail him up If he came down again 'Cause everybody's gotta have somebody to look down on Who they can feel better than at any time they please Someone doin' somethin' dirty decent folks can frown on If you can't find nobody else, then help yourself to me -- Kristoffersen

Merry Quistmas, Ron.

I’m the cookie maker this (well, every) year. Ah, Swedish Christmas cookies (and non-Swedish one’s too). Wendy P.

Seriously? You think that the billboard example I used to illustrate a point is all I base my feeling on? Religious extremism is something I worry about because in both your country and mine one of the main political parties who hold power are dominated by people, mostly men, who would impose religion as the basis for law upon our nations. It's no joke and no small matter.

except for these https://www.google.com/search?q=south+of+the+border+signs&safe=off&rlz=1C1RNVH_enUS587US587&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUqZLYw87mAhWCAZ0JHbNRDL0Q_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=876&bih=585 these are cool

As long as there is ambition . . .there will be inequality.

1 factor I think is whether these atrocities are a matter of policy or performed by soldiers acting outside of their rules of engagement