Saint Nick | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 6, 2023
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Wyn Collier. |
| 0:10.5 | Today I'm reading a piece I wrote titled St. Nick. |
| 0:15.4 | The person we know as St. Nicholas, St. Nick, was born around AD 270 to a wealthy Grecian family. |
| 0:25.3 | Tragically, his parents died when he was a boy and he lived with his uncle who loved him and taught him to follow God. |
| 0:33.1 | When Nicholas was a young man, legend says that he heard of three sisters who didn't have a dowry for marriage and would soon be destitute. |
| 0:41.7 | Wanting to follow Jesus' teaching about giving to those in need, he took his inheritance and gave each sister a bag of gold coins. |
| 0:52.1 | Over the years, Nicholas gave the rest of his money away, feeding the poor and |
| 0:56.7 | caring for others. In the following centuries, Nicholas was honored for his lavish generosity, |
| 1:03.4 | and he inspired the character we know as Santa Claus. While the glitz and advertising of the season may threaten our celebrations, the gift-giving |
| 1:13.8 | tradition connects to Nicholas, and his generosity was based on his devotion to Jesus. |
| 1:21.6 | Nicholas knew that Christ enacted unimagined generosity, bringing the most profound gift, God. |
| 1:30.8 | Jesus is God with us. |
| 1:34.9 | And he brought us the gift of life. |
| 1:38.4 | In a world of death, he saves his people from their sins. |
| 1:43.2 | When we believe in Jesus, sacrificial generosity unfolds. |
| 1:48.4 | We tend to others' needs, and we joyfully provide for them as God provides for us. |
| 1:55.0 | This is St. Nick's story, but far more. |
| 1:59.1 | This is God's story. |
| 2:09.3 | Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Matthew 1, verses 18 to 25. |
| 2:14.4 | This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about. |
| 2:18.8 | His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, |
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