I have been working on the church's Christmas Day service recently. I want to make the service on Christmas day much different than a normal service becasue Christmas Day is a special day, a differrent and not normal Sunday. I know many of the people I worship with on a normal Sunday will take this day and go spend it with their earthly family. To me, the family I want to spend Christmas Day with, is the family that is more special, much closer, my blood family in Christ. So for those who will be worshipping God in the manager and on the Cross Christmas day, I want to make it a special service. So I have been reading from many books on Christmas, and I have come across many deep thoughts about this special day. Today I thought I would share some of the things that I have read, that have truly struck me and reminded me that this is a special day. A special day of worship, for the special people of God, that the baby in the manager came to this earth to save. The baby did not come to the earth, through the womb, to make it possible, but to redeem His special people.
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. - E. B. White
Jesus, Lord, we look to thee,
On this day of thine own
Nativity; Show thyself the
Prince of Peace; Bid our
jarring conflicts cease.- Charles Wesley
Infinite and an Infant. Eternal, yet born of a women, Oh the wonder of Christmas.- C.H. Spurgeon
Celebrating Advent means being able to wait.- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Shepherds sing;
and shall I silent be?
My God, no hymn for thee?- George Herbert
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