Hello, friends, this is Scott Pauli.

Thank you for listening to Enjoying the Journey.

Seven years ago, we began these daily broadcast.

You may not know this, but enjoying the journey actually started during the Christmas season.

We set aside a month of Christmas

studies to search the scriptures, to learn the beautiful joy of the coming of Christ and all that

was connected to it. And now, as we celebrate the end of our seventh year of broadcast, I'm so excited

to share these studies with you again. I want to encourage you to

get your Bible, get your family, sit down, and let's worship our great Christ together. At the

conclusion of today's study, Greg will come and tell you more about how you can obtain other resources

that will help you in your Bible study and family life and how

you can pray with us and help us in the days ahead. Thank you for being a part of the enjoying

the journey family. May God give you a blessed Christmas. I want to open a family picture

album with you today. We turn our attention to Luke chapter number two and one of the very

first snapshots we have of the family that the Lord Jesus Christ grew up in. I want you to see

the first Christmas family portrait. I don't know about you and your family, but every year at

Christmas we're always working hard to try to get at least

one good Christmas picture together. Some of them are better than others. You understand what I mean by

that. But in Luke chapter two, we find the most beautiful picture. Now, the setting is not at all what

you might imagine. As a matter of fact, if I were creating a setting for the first Christmas family portrait of

the Lord Jesus and his earthly family, this is not at all the place I would have chosen. But it is the

place that the Heavenly Father, the all-wise God chose to give us this first snapshot. You know, from the

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