Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your

morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to

change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

This Christmas, we want to invite

you and your family to join us for our candlelight services on December 22nd through 24th at any of our

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And now let's dive in to today's

Devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast, so honored that you would dive in with us for a few

minutes today. My name is Mike Bro, and this week we've been asking the question, just who is this baby

in a manger? And we've been unpacking some of the titles given to Jesus

in a prophecy that was written about 700 years before the events in Bethlehem that we will read about

and we sing about. And we learned so far that he is a wonderful counselor. You can tell him anything.

And he always listens with empathy and wisdom and compassion and this dialed-in personal attention.

We learn that he is the mighty God.

He is the one who spoke the universe into existence.

He is the everlasting father.

He is the great I am, who just always has been, and always is, and always will be.

He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Yesterday we talked about how he is the Prince of Peace. And while the world describes

peace as the absence of conflict, the peace he gives is a calm in the middle of the chaos,

and he will give it to anyone who will draw close to him. I'd like to wrap up this week with one more name. The name is

Emmanuel. It simply means God with us. I love the story that the late Chuck Colson tells about

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