Christmas-Card Perfect | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 25, 2022
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🗓️ 25 December 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas, and welcome to this Christmas Day edition of Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:10.5 | Our reading today was written by Tim Gustafson, and he titled it Christmas Card Perfect. |
| 0:16.0 | The Barker family Christmas video was perfect. |
| 0:19.7 | Three robe-clad shepherds, the family's young sons, |
| 0:23.1 | huddled around a fire in a grassy field. Suddenly, an angel descended from the hilltop, |
| 0:28.6 | their big sister, looking resplendent, except for the pink high-top sneakers. As the soundtrack |
| 0:35.1 | swelled, the shepherd stared skyward in amazement. A trek across a field |
| 0:40.3 | led them to a real baby, their infant brother in a modern barn. Big sister now played the role of Mary. |
| 0:48.2 | Then came the bonus features, when their dad let us peek behind the scenes. Winy kids complained, |
| 0:55.0 | I'm cold! I have to go to the bathroom right now! Can we go home? |
| 0:59.0 | Guys, pay attention, said their mom more than once. |
| 1:03.0 | Reality was far from Christmas card perfect. |
| 1:08.0 | It's easy to view the original Christmas story through the lens of a well-edited |
| 1:12.6 | final cut, but Jesus' life was anything but smooth. A jealous Herod tried to kill him in infancy. |
| 1:21.4 | Marian Joseph misunderstood him. The world hated him. For a time, even his own brothers did not believe in him. |
| 1:29.5 | His mission led to a grisly death. |
| 1:32.4 | He did it all to honor his father and rescue us. |
| 1:37.4 | The Barker's video ended with these words of Jesus. |
| 1:40.9 | I am the way and the truth and the life. |
| 1:45.1 | No one comes to the Father except through me. |
| 1:49.5 | That's a reality we can live with forever. |
| 1:56.8 | Today's scripture reading is from the Book of John chapter 7, verses 1 through 9. |
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