Hey everyone, welcome back to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. If you're joining us for the first time,

welcome. We're so glad you're here. You know, on the very first Christmas, when Mary was about

ready to give birth to Jesus, she and Joseph were turned away by the innkeeper. Why? Because there was no room. Well, today,

Pastor Rick brings his Christmas series, Will I Make Room for Jesus to a close? He'll show us today

how just like the innkeeper we can miss out on being part of God's greatest plans if we don't

make room for Jesus every day. Okay, here's Rick with the final

part of a message called, What Gift Will I Bring to Jesus? The Warren families have had a

tradition for 53 years called a birthday party for Jesus. I know this because I started it. I was three years old. When I was three years old, I asked my mom,

what is Christmas? And she said, it's Jesus' birthday. I said as a three-year-old with great logic

and five points, it's Jesus' birthday.

That means we should have a birthday party.

We could have a cake.

We could have a candle.

We could have Kool-Aid.

We can sing songs about Jesus,

and the angels can come down from heaven on a ladder.

And so we started a birthday party for Jesus, and we followed that

tradition for 53 years. We don't do it on Christmas Day. We usually do it on Christmas Eve,

and now that we have all these services, we do it earlier in the week. It's a very, very

meaningful, now sacred time for what has now been three generations of Warrens, actually four now.

I remember when my sister and my brother and I were little, and we would have birthday party

for Jesus, and it was kind of squirrely, because we'd talk around, and we'd sing some songs,

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