Detangling Christmas
Robert Dawson
1 John 4: 9-10, 13-14
To help manage the stress of getting ready for Christmas—with all that shopping, cleaning, and getting those Christmas decorations up—at least one company is trying to help. Tesco, a British supermarket company, posted an ad for a new job—a Christmas Light Untangler. The company's website offered the following description for the 36-hour-a-week job: "This new position will offer you the chance to show that every little bit helps, by running the unique in-store service with a friendly, flexible approach and making a genuine difference to the little things that matter to our customers this Christmas." The first duty includes "[Manning] and managing the Christmas Lights Untangling stand." [Ben Hooper, "British Supermarket Seeks 'Christmas Light Untangler, ]
It seems for me, Christmas is a time where everything gets a little jumbled, tangled up and twisted up. When life gets tangled up and twisted up, my blood pressure goes higher, and my fuse gets shorter. A large part of my problem is allowing all the loose ends of the season to get tangled and chock out what Christmas is all about.
Today, the last Sunday before Christmas, I want to take a few minutes before we celebrate communion together and detangle what may have become a very hectic Christmas for some by reminding us of Christmas’ purpose and its beauty, The beauty of God’s great gift to us.
1 John 4.9-10, 13-14 – 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins…13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
One of the most wonderful and amazing truths we find in Scripture is found in a description o ...
Robert Dawson
1 John 4: 9-10, 13-14
To help manage the stress of getting ready for Christmas—with all that shopping, cleaning, and getting those Christmas decorations up—at least one company is trying to help. Tesco, a British supermarket company, posted an ad for a new job—a Christmas Light Untangler. The company's website offered the following description for the 36-hour-a-week job: "This new position will offer you the chance to show that every little bit helps, by running the unique in-store service with a friendly, flexible approach and making a genuine difference to the little things that matter to our customers this Christmas." The first duty includes "[Manning] and managing the Christmas Lights Untangling stand." [Ben Hooper, "British Supermarket Seeks 'Christmas Light Untangler, ]
It seems for me, Christmas is a time where everything gets a little jumbled, tangled up and twisted up. When life gets tangled up and twisted up, my blood pressure goes higher, and my fuse gets shorter. A large part of my problem is allowing all the loose ends of the season to get tangled and chock out what Christmas is all about.
Today, the last Sunday before Christmas, I want to take a few minutes before we celebrate communion together and detangle what may have become a very hectic Christmas for some by reminding us of Christmas’ purpose and its beauty, The beauty of God’s great gift to us.
1 John 4.9-10, 13-14 – 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins…13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
One of the most wonderful and amazing truths we find in Scripture is found in a description o ...
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