Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Living Proof Ministries.

We thought it fitting to close out the year with one of our very favorite Christmas programs.

In 2017, my good buddy, Travis Cottrell and I met up with one of our very favorite people on the planet to tape a Christmas program. Little did we know

that it would be our last. Our dear friend Mandisa went home to be with the Lord this year, and we all

miss her so much. We wanted to pull this Christmas series out of the vault and share it with each of you

to honor the life and legacy of Mandisa, no matter what place

you're in this Christmas, whether it be grief or great celebration, God sees you and wants

to fill you with his hope and his comfort.

What a joy to send this season with you.

I'm really, really excited about what we're studying through this series.

I want you to turn with me to the book of Philemon.

The book of Philemon, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus and Timothy, our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

and Athea, our sister, and Archipus, our fellow soldier, and the church in your house.

Grace to you in peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always when I remembered you in my prayers

because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the

saints. And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every

good thing that is in you for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and

comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you

accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required. Yet for love's sake, I prefer to appeal to you.

I Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus. I appeal to you for my child

onusimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. Formerly he was indeed useless to you,

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