God’s Extravagant Gift
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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A Collection of Christmas stories that includes a dramatic reading of “When Mother Was Eleven Foot Four: A Christmas Memory.”
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| 0:00.0 | Christmas. |
| 0:10.0 | My favorite part of Christmas. |
| 0:10.0 | My favorite part of Christmas is going home to see my family and also getting my dogs the cutest little Christmas sweaters. |
| 0:17.0 | My favorite part of Christmas is watching It's a Wonderful Life with my family. |
| 0:21.0 | I think my favorite thing about Christmas is just |
| 0:23.5 | getting everyone together, eating too much, and then just being around family. |
| 0:27.6 | My favorite part of Christmas is probably displaying gifts for people and |
| 0:32.1 | giving it to them. |
| 0:33.9 | My favorite part of Christmas is being able to sing the great songs and lead worship for people. |
| 0:41.4 | Well how about you? What captures your imagination and excitement this time of year? |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to a special Christmas edition of Focus on The Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm John Fuller and we hope you're having a terrific day at home with your family and friends. And don't worry, we're actually not here. |
| 0:57.5 | Jim and I are not in the studio. We've recorded this program early so we could be with our families today. |
| 1:03.0 | John, I love Christmas. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, it's such a great time of year. |
| 1:07.0 | It's just buoyant and happy and joyful |
| 1:09.0 | and getting everybody together and laughing together. |
| 1:12.0 | That's what I think of. It's such a festive time, |
| 1:15.3 | rich with traditions and memories and meaningful to our faith as Christians. And we think about it, the incredible gift that Jesus Christ gave us to come to save us all from our |
| 1:28.0 | sins, making us part of God's family forever. And it doesn't get much better than that. It's a no-brainer. I just |
| 1:36.4 | wish more people understood that that don't have a relationship with Jesus. |
| 1:40.4 | The abundant life. Yeah and he's here for you he's not against you. |
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