Don’t Rush Through Christmas—4 Lessons to Help Refocus

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Christmas season is a time full of never ending to-do lists. It’s so busy, that we often rush from one thing to the next without taking in the importance of Christmas. But, I don't want to rush by the Christmas season. I love the traditions. I love the excitement I don't want that sense of panic that we got to get it all done.

This time of year, my thoughts often go to Mary, Jesus’s mother. Can you imagine what she must have been going through before Jesus’ birth? And yet, she knew the faithfulness of God and her response was to praise Him. I believe that we can learn from her response four earthly lessons that reflect our eternal disciplines – she submitted, she served, she suffered, and she sang.

If we take a look at Mary and use her example to frame our busyness, we too can magnify God through our songs of praise all year long.

This year, don’t rush by the Nativity; don’t rush by Mary; and don’t rush by Jesus. Instead, take time to reflect on the gifts we have and enjoy this Christmastime.

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0:00.0	Proverbs 910 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and we need to have a healthy view of what fearing the Lord is and
0:08.8	Fearless is a word that we use here on the podcast all the time. My podcast is named Fearless. It's a word that's so important to me, but it can have different meanings and different stages of life and different connotations, but we are of course are living in a hostile culture that's an increasingly hostile to
0:26.2	biblical truth of course and I wrote a fearless family devotional for those that didn't know. And it's a study on First Peter.
0:34.0	It's only 14 days long,
0:36.0	but it's to help equip you to spend daily time in God's word
0:39.0	and to help you prepare your family
0:41.0	to have a fearless faith. And Peter of course he wrote this
0:44.7	short letter to believers who were living in turbulent times just like we are
0:49.0	today and I will put a link in the show notes of how you can get your own copy but it's also on my website
0:55.2	sissy Graham Lynch.
1:05.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Welcome back to another episode of Fearless and this is the last episode of the
1:29.1	year which is really hard to believe but this past weekend I was in Asheville, North Carolina
1:34.1	speaking at the Cove, the Billy Graham Training Center,
1:37.6	which of course is one of my favorite places to visit.
1:41.6	It's a special place for my family and I, but I wanted to share with you what has been on my heart about what we can learn from the life of Mary.
1:50.0	I know so often that this is a busy time of year and we can rush by everything and my prayer
1:54.9	has just been not to rush by the nativity, not to rush by Mary, not to rush by Jesus
2:00.0	this Christmas season. And I wanted to share with you the four disciplines
2:04.8	we can learn from the life of Mary
2:07.5	that might not come natural to our human spirit.
2:19.8	Good afternoon. It is so fun for me to come, I call this home, North Carolina, because as my brother said, I live in southwest Florida, Fort Myers Florida with my husband and three
2:26.6	children so when I come home to North Carolina I feel like I can breathe but especially
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