Week 16: Share the good news - the shepherds
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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Summary
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. (Luke 2:20)
In the Christmas story, the angel of the Lord announced Jesus’s birth to some lowly shepherds who were minding their own business, watching over their sheep. It seems like an unlikely group, but their response is a perfect example of a life of faith.
The shepherds were rightfully afraid of the angel, but they immediately said, “Let’s go . . . see” (Luke 2:15). The Bible says they hurried off and found Mary, Joseph, and the baby. Then they spread the word because they could not contain this big news! And when they had told as many people as they could, they came back to Mary and Joseph and praised God for everything they had seen and heard.
Let’s remember that response this Christmas: Let’s go learn more, let’s tell everyone about it, and let’s praise God for all he has done! It sounds easy enough, but we all know there are barriers to spreading the good news of Jesus: peer pressure, distraction, embarrassment, and self-doubt, just to name a few. But if we just move past those things, we can share the hope of Jesus with our hurting world, just as we were meant to do!
Let’s pray that our kids will always be proud and ready to share about Jesus, knowing that the news of our Savior is too good to keep to themselves!
Father God, thank you for sending your son as a baby to rescue our broken world. Help __________ to internalize the good news of Jesus and be so excited that they have to tell others! Keep our family’s hearts and minds on you this Christmas season. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends. Welcome back to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Cort Edith Fayo, and this week is Christmas. |
| 0:19.9 | So I don't know when you're listening to this, but I hope it's this week. And I'm really pumped that we get to just talk about the good news of Jesus and the shepherds and their role and the story. But at first, a couple of encouragements. One, I just want to encourage you to take a fresh look at the birth of Jesus because sometimes we can get in the motions |
| 0:37.9 | it's like oh yeah yeah Jesus was born yada yada and it's like no this is incredible what happened |
| 0:43.9 | the story and Luke two and we're going to read it together in a second but one one year my pastor did |
| 0:48.9 | a sermon on Joseph and it was so cool to think about all that transpired in the miracle that is |
| 0:53.7 | Jesus's birth through the lens of Joseph. |
| 0:56.0 | So that was really cool for me. And one year, I discovered this song called You're Here by Francesca Betistelli. |
| 1:02.5 | And because I love this song so much, I'm going to make a Spotify list, music list about Christmas and some of my favorite carols, and I'll put that one in here, |
| 1:11.9 | but I'm telling you, go listen to it today. And just the perspective of the mother and Mary |
| 1:17.5 | looking at the birth of her baby and what he would do one day. There's one line in there that |
| 1:21.6 | gets me choked up every time. It's like, imagine Mary holding Jesus. And it says, look at your |
| 1:26.2 | hands. They're still so small. |
| 1:28.2 | Someday, you're going to stretch them out and save us all. I mean, what? So listen to that song, |
| 1:33.7 | if you need a good cry, but just I want us to like shake up our look and our experience with the |
| 1:38.8 | birth, because again, sometimes if you've been a Christian a long time, it can kind of become |
| 1:42.5 | lukewarm when it shouldn't. |
| 1:45.1 | Another confession, I am the worst at being consistent. I have tried every great idea out there |
| 1:51.1 | on Pinterest and I'll do it like once. But if my kids look back, they're like, yeah, we had the elf |
| 1:55.3 | once. Yeah, we sang happy birthday Jesus once. Yeah, we read Luke two once. But looking back, |
| 2:00.6 | over 19 years of parenting, |
| 2:02.2 | I wish I had just kept Christmas really simple and always read Luke two to them or always saying |
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