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Well, so glad to see you all in church today, and I want you to grab your Bible and turn to Luke Chapter 2 and the

title of my message is waiting for Christmas. Well it's only hours away now.

Now let me take a quick poll. How many of you have finished your Christmas shopping?

Nothing left to do with your hand up. All the packages wrapped, good, good. How many of you still have to do a little more Christmas shopping?

A little bit more, it's usually men.

Yes, it's men, yes.

How many of you not started your Christmas shopping,

you're going to do it after church.

How many? Just admit it.

Submit it. Yeah. You're going to have a lot of fun at the mall today.

I can tell you that.

Well, that's how it is for some people.

You know, sometimes friends and especially family members will tell us

what they want. I always want to get a person what they want for Christmas, not

something I think they want.

Now my grandkids, they send me links to things to get for them.

And we had all of them over the other night,

four girls, one boy, and so we had a little pre- Christmas event at our house and

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