You cannot believe what you do not know.
You cannot respond to what you cannot understand.

Whether he was born in 4 B.C. or A.D. 6, in Bethlehem or Nazareth, whether there were multitudes of the heavenly host to hymn the glory of it or just Mary and her husband–when the child was born, the whole course of human history was changed.

That is a truth as unassailable as any truth. Art, music, literature, Western culture itself with all its institutions and Western man’s whole understanding of himself and his world–it is impossible to conceive how differently things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did.

And there is a truth beyond that: for millions of people who have believed since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

Frederick Buechner in Listening to Your Life. Christianity Today, Vol. 37, no. 15.

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“Self-esteem is never self-made. It grows from the esteem of others given in response to all our lives produce”
Maurice Wagner in “The Sensation of Being Somebody” (Zondervan 1975)

Have you helped build the self-esteem of your youth?

100 years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…

But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Anonymous

• God won’t ask what kind of car you drove. He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation.
• God won’t ask the square footage of your house, He’ll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
• God won’t ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He’ll ask how many you helped to clothe.
• God won’t ask what your highest salary was. He’ll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
• God won’t ask what your job title was. He’ll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
• God won’t ask how many friends you had. He’ll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
• God won’t ask in what neighborhood you lived, He’ll ask how you treated your neighbors.
• God won’t ask about the color of your skin, He’ll ask about the content of your character.
• God won’t ask why it took you so long to seek Salvation. He’ll lovingly take you to your mansion in heaven

Source: Circulating on internet via emails

“I have four things to learn in life:
To think clearly without hurry or confusion;
To love everybody sincerely;
To act in everything with the highest motives;
To trust in God unhesitatingly.”

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
– Harlan Miller

“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
– Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
– Bess Streeter Aldrich

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
– Bob Hope

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.
– Calvin Coolidge

“Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.”
– William Parks (Missions)

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays-let them overtake me unexpectedly-waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why this is Christmas Day!””
– David Grayson

“Don’t expect too much of Christmas Day. You can’t crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.”
– Oren Arnold

“So remember while December Brings the only Christmas day, In the year let there be Christmas In the things you do and say.”
– Anonymous

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Games and Activities helping youth discover the Reason for the Season.

Get more than 200 creative ideas for planning a Youth Christmas celebration or Christmas Party party. You can immediately download my best Christmas Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Christmas activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

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