Seeking the Christ Child
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | They bowed down and worshipped him. |
| 0:04.5 | Matthew 2.11. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.5 | Seeking the Christ Child was written by Patricia Rabon and read by Joyce Dinkins. |
| 0:21.7 | Matthew chapter 2, verses 1 through 2, and 7 through 12. |
| 0:28.1 | After Jesus was born in Bethlehem and Judea, during the time of King Herod, |
| 0:34.4 | Magi from the East came to Jerusalem and asked, where is the one who has been born |
| 0:40.5 | king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. Now picking up at |
| 0:48.3 | verse 7. Then Herod called the magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had |
| 0:56.3 | appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as |
| 1:03.8 | you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him. After they heard the king, they went on their way, |
| 1:14.2 | and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place |
| 1:19.6 | where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, |
| 1:27.0 | they saw the child with his mother, Mary, |
| 1:30.6 | and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him |
| 1:37.9 | with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, |
| 1:47.3 | they returned to their country by another route. |
| 1:53.8 | Seeking the Christ Child, written by Patricia Raven. |
| 1:59.1 | When writing teacher Peter Turchy sees a map, he looks for the adventure it holds. |
| 2:06.3 | To ask for a map, he says, is to say, tell me a story. I seized on that idea when preparing to |
| 2:14.4 | teach a Sunday school class during Christmas on the faith of the wise men. |
| 2:19.3 | As I studied maps, I learned the Magi traveled some 900 miles, perhaps over several months, to find the Christ child, |
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