The Purpose of Christmas - Part 1
Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
At Christmas, we have more parties than any other time of the year. Yet often, the Guest of Honor is left out of the party. Pastor Rick shows us in this message why Christmas is good news of great joy for everyone and why Jesus should be the focus of our celebrations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Warren and Merry Christmas. You're listening to Daily Hope. This is Pastor Rick's |
| 0:06.4 | Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in our Christmas |
| 0:13.0 | series called Jesus Came to Light Up Your Life. In these messages, Rick shares how Jesus came to earth to enlighten and transform us. |
| 0:23.6 | Now, in just a little while, we're going to tell you how to get a copy of the brand new Daily Hope Prayer Journal, a great resource that will help you tap into God's power and presence as you discover the keys to praying with passion and purpose. |
| 0:39.1 | Go to Pastor Rick.com to find out more or text the word hope to 800, 600,0004. Right now, |
| 0:49.3 | here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called The Purpose of Christmas. |
| 0:55.6 | You know, all this week, the world has been focused on this event, Christmas. |
| 1:01.7 | An event that happened 2,000 years ago in the Middle East, in a little town with no fanfare. |
| 1:09.5 | But today, 2,000 years later, it can still stop traffic. |
| 1:14.7 | How is that? What's so special about Christmas? Why is it that it is the most celebrated holiday |
| 1:23.0 | on the planet? Why is it that this week Billions of people shut down work, went to a service, |
| 1:32.4 | had a party, gathered in their homes to celebrate Christmas. What makes Christmas special? |
| 1:39.5 | The fact is, the birth of Jesus Christ is the most significant event in the history of mankind. It |
| 1:45.4 | split history into AD and BC. And every time you write a check, you're using Jesus Christ as the focus. |
| 1:52.2 | Now, in this service, we're going to look at the purpose of Christmas. Why we celebrate it. |
| 1:59.4 | At the very first Christmas, at the birth of Jesus, an angel announced three things. |
| 2:04.6 | And in those three statements of the angel, we find the three purposes of Christmas. |
| 2:10.5 | Christmas is a time for celebration. |
| 2:13.6 | Christmas is a time for salvation. |
| 2:16.6 | And Christmas is a time for reconciliation. and Christmas is a time for reconciliation. |
| 2:19.8 | We're going to look at how these three words can change your life forever. |
| 2:26.0 | When Jesus Christ was born, there were a group of shepherds out in the fields, |
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