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Luke 1:33
Luke 1:26-38
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The time is early December. A family of four drives to a suburban mall to do some Christmas shopping. They decide to shop separately so that the presents they purchase for each other might be kept secret. Before they split up, the father says, “Let’s synchronize our watches and agree to meet in the parking lot at five o’clock sharp.” The four adjust their respective watches. Then the mother turns to the father, and with hand outstretched says, “O.K. Now let’s all synchronize our wallets!”
In the same shopping mall, a five-year-old walks up to a department store Santa Claus and says, “You don’t have to worry about me this year. We have ‘Master Charge’ and ‘American Express’.”
A letter has been preserved, from the year 1827, in which an American bishop made the following observation: “The devil has stolen Christmas from us. The devil has stolen Christmas, the day of our spiritual redemption, and converted it into a day of worldly festivity,…
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