Exclusive: Greg Laurie stresses, ‘We must always remember that God is with us, Immanuel’
We can get so worked up about the celebration of Christmas, hoping that we give the perfect gift to someone – or that someone gives us what we actually wanted. We can put so much emphasis on gifts that it takes all the fun out of it.
I think we need to put things into perspective. What I’ve discovered about Christmas is that it’s not so much the main event but those in-between moments that are the most precious of all, those times that I enjoy with family and friends.
It’s important that we understand what the essential message of Christmas really is. To do that, we need to go back further than the arrival of Jesus on that first Christmas in Bethlehem. We need to go back to a young woman named Mary, who lived in a wicked little city called Nazareth.
Amen!