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Do you think it ever crossed the mind of the very young Mary that she would be the mother of the

Messiah? Mary was not a VIP, not a notable person in your community, but she was noticed by God.

Pastor Greg Laurie says her story brings hope. Mary was a nobody in a nothing town in the middle

of nowhere. Give her a feel that way. I'm a nobody. I'm in a nowhere town. No one shares about me.

God cares about you and know this God uses nobody's. This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day of a moment again.

Amazing grace, God's sweet, the stone. But can you hear the only angels that seem there?

This is the day that's seen with a lot of pleasure.

In the age of social media, people can make themselves seem quite important, quite successful.

But it often only amplifies the difference between life as it is and life as they want it to be.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie has hope for anyone who's feeling small, unnoticed,

disregarded and dismissed. Hope for anyone who isn't experiencing the joy of the Christmas season.

We'll see how God stepped into the human story and he can step into your story and mine.

The day that day when I speak to you.

Heard about a Sunday school teacher that went to Israel. She bought one of those little

nativity sets made out of olive wood and so she was traveling back home and she was taking it as

carry on and they were going over it very carefully. The security people were looking at every

single piece of her nativity set. There's Mary and Joseph and a couple of camels and the shepherds

and the wise man and they're carefully searching every single figure from her nativity set.

And finally she said, why are you scrutinizing of this nativity set so carefully in the answer

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