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far different than it is today – Christmas began the

in ways you may never have greatest journey which would
imagined. never have happened on this

earth. JOHN 1:1 In the beginning
It was Jesus who taught
His followers to love God, but was the Word, and the Word

also their neighbors! It was the was with God, and the Word
early Christian communities was God. 2 He was in the
that stressed support for beginning with God. 3 All things

widows, orphans, the sick and were made through Him, and
disabled. without Him nothing was made
that was made. 4 In Him was
In recent times, it has been life, and the life was the light
Christ’s followers which have of men. 5 And the light shines

founded several charitable in the darkness, and the
organizations on earth, darkness did not comprehend it.
including the Red Cross, the

Salvation Army, World Relief, Here was the creator, there
World Vision, Samaritan’s Purse, from the beginning of time, the

Food for the Hungry, and one that everything was made
Compassion International. for, and nothing was made
without...the light of man....and
Even our educational He chose to come to earth as a
system would be much fragile, vulnerable human. Why
different without Christmas, would such a sovereign being

the birth of Christ. In this 2021 do that for us? What possible
I know it may be difficult to motive could He have had to

image, but Oxford, Cambridge, come and endure such scorn
Harvard, Yale, and all of the and ridicule? To go through the

first 123 American colleges and pain of the cross, only to be
universities were founded by rejected by the very people He

Christians. died for?

Sadly, today those schools One reason and only one
that were started as Christian reason. JOHN 3:16 For God so

universities now teach loved the world that He gave
evolution and deny the very His only begotten Son, that

existence of God. whoever believes in Him should