Mary Christmas and welcome to this weekend's

In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

For most people, preparations and gift exchanges

will be quickly over, but there's one present

that you can enjoy forever.

Jesus is your gift from the Father.

Of all the gifts that you've ever received,

which one stands out above all the rest?

Is it something of great value to you today?

Has it brought you lots of pleasure?

How would you really compare with all the rest of the gifts?

Well, what I've discovered is this.

Sometimes the gift that we think is so very important.

Something comes along and we realize

there's something more important,

something more valuable.

As you think about all the gifts that you've received,

is there anything that you have treasured

down through the years?

Or have most of those gifts just been something

that's come along and you've passed them along

and somewhere along the way you sort of lost your thrill

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