Christmas
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In our last post, we found that the Christmas story actually begins in the book of Genesis. After the fall of man, God confronted the serpent (satan) and declared war on him. God decreed that a Savior, one born of a woman, would come, and He would crush satan’s head. (Genesis 3:15) The sacred promise
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The Christmas story… beautifully familiar! Memorialized in manger scenes in front of churches, displayed in town squares, and front lawns across the land. Presented perennially in children’s nativity plays… “Mary” and “Joseph” looking lovingly at the doll “baby Jesus” wrapped in a towel and laid on a bed of straw… the “shepherds” and “wise men”
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Nobody ever slept much at the Townsend house in Shreveport on Christmas Eve. Dad knew he had toys and bicycles to assemble for us four kids after he and Mom finally chased us to bed with threats of getting the “spanking of our lives” if we didn’t get in the bed immediately. Mom knew she
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