Keeping Christmas Simple: Low Pressure, High Impact Gift Ideas

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In last week's episode, we set the foundation for keeping sight of Christ through the consumerism, hustle, and bustle of the holiday season. In today's episode, we get very practical... Listen in as we discuss tangible, creative, and inexpensive gift ideas, how to keep things low pressure, and how thoughtfulness can have an incredible impact. Show notes: * New segment: Heart Check * What book is in your hand? * What voice is in your ear? * What's stirring in your heart? * Announcement: on January 1st we're doing an online 31-Day Pursuit Challenge. Stay tuned for info. Pick up the books if you want free access to the 31-day e-course. * Recap of last week's episode: * Keeping Christ front and center * Avoid the mistake of expecting gifts to satisfy * From a place of security in Christ, enjoy Christmas with wisdom and stewardship * Discussion: Simple Gift Ideas that are Low Pressure, High Impact * Tile coasters w/ Images on them (4" white tiles, 4" square images) * Baked goods (granola, cookies, etc) * We love calendars at Costco * Give experiences * Plan an outing for the day after Christmas * Groupon is great for local, fun activities * Books that can be read together * Memberships to local places (Zoo, Museums, etc) * Give "time gifts" * Books! * The 31-Day Pursuit Challenge Bundle * Thirty-One Days of Prayer (for wives, for husbands). Incredible books! * Pilgrims Regress * Advent by Ann Voskamp * For Kids * The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls * Kiwi/Koala Crates (AMAZING) * Craft Gifts * Time w/ Kids (simple is fine, just be intentional) * For others: * Be aware of neighbors... show them intentionality * Invite neighbors over if they don't have anyone to celebrate holidays with * Give out baked goods to houses nearby * Other ideas: * Make your own advent calendar Couple's Challenge * Pray together about how to be intentional this season. * Make a list of potential holiday hangups, pray about how to follow them * Pray about people and how you can minister out of your marriage this year Mentioned in the show: * The Perfectly, Wonderfully Made Podcast (with Alise Marsh) (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/perfectly-wonderfully-made/id1281408087?mt=2)

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0:00.0	I'm a huge Grinch. He's a humbug a little bit. But like when I think about Jesus it becomes so
0:06.1	Magical and that's not probably the perfect word to use, but that's what that's what makes the season
0:10.8	It's otherworldly. Yeah, amazing to me. Yeah, for sure. It's otherworldly. Yes
0:14.8	like Hogwarts. No
0:18.1	Oh my god welcome to the fierce marriage podcast where we believe that marriage takes a fierce tenacity that never gives up and
0:24.1	Refuses to give in here will share openly and honestly about all things marriage sex
0:29.0	Communication finances priorities purpose and everything in between
0:32.8	laugh ponder and join in on candid gospel centered conversations
0:40.6	This is fierce marriage
0:49.1	Hello welcome to fierce marriage
0:51.1	podcast hey guys welcome to the podcast we as always are thrilled to be here
0:59.1	This is actually the highlight of our week. I really I think it was what Sunday we were coming back from something and
1:05.8	I was just like
1:07.8	I'm bummed that it's like four days until we were we record on Thursdays
1:11.5	And so I was really bummed I was looking forward to it and it wasn't supposed to come for many days
1:14.8	So we're excited to be here. Yeah genuinely excited. We have a very jam packed
1:20.8	schedule for today's show rundown. Yeah, we have a little rundown with Charles minor
1:29.5	Yeah, so we have a a very packed schedule. So we really want to take today
1:34.8	Just so you know to expect we're gonna use last week as kind of our jump off point
1:39.2	And today's gonna be very light
1:41.6	Much more like kind of lighthearted. We're not gonna do it any deep dives into really any scripture
1:48.1	We're just gonna kind of recap last week and but we're supposed to have fun today
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