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How can we stay focused on the true meaning of Christmas amidst so much distraction during the holidays? Beloved preacher and evangelist Billy Graham invites you to celebrate Christmas and the birth and life of Christ through a new perspectivethe cradle, cross, and crown.
The biblical Christmas message is so often lost in the busyness and commercialism of the holiday seasonholiday parties, family get-togethers, and the pressure to spend excessively on loved ones. How and where can we experience and share Christ at Christmas?
Drawing from a lifetime of writings and sermons, world-renowned preacher and author Billy Graham helps us slow down and focus on Jesus by taking us back to the time when heaven descended to earth to the place where Christ was born.
This classic Christmas message includes
Use this message of hope to point you and your family toward Jesus this Christmas. And give it as a gift to your friends, loved ones, or complete strangers. Experience Christ this Christmas through The Cradle, Cross, and Crown.
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2014 by Billy Graham
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Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson.
Portions of this book were excerpted from This Christmas Night by Billy and Ruth Graham 2007, and from Hope for Each Day by Billy Graham 2002. Used by permission.
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Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.Zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked PHILLIPS are from J. B. Phillips: THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH, 1962 edition by HarperCollins.
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I n the midst of all the upheaval and crisis and difficulty and problems and fear, comes the message of Christmas with all of its hope, goodwill, and cheer. I think the message of Christmas has been terribly misapplied and misunderstood for many years in this country. Some think of business profits, shopping, gifts, tinsel, toys, and celebration. Others think only of Bethlehem, of the star in the sky, shepherds in the field and angels singing. Still others cynically ask, Where is this Prince of Peace in a world filled with so much trouble?
The real Christmas message goes far deeper. It heralds the entrance of God into human history. It is heaven descending to earth. It is as though a trumpeter had taken his stand upon the turrets of time and announced to a despairing, hopeless, and frustrated world the coming of the Prince of Peace. It answers all the great questions that plague the human race at this hour. The Christmas message is relevant, revolutionary, and reassuring to us today. I believe it can be summed up in three words: a cradle, a Cross, and a crown.
CRADLE
O n that first Christmas night the Bible tells us about the angel coming to those fearful shepherds and saying, Fear not, I bring you good news. What is the real meaning of that good news?
During World War II, many a mother would take her son and try to keep the memory of the father who was away at war in the memory of that boy. And one mother I heard about took her son every day into the bedroom and showed him a large portrait of the father who was away. One day the little boy said to his mother, Mom, wouldnt it be great if Dad could just step out of the frame?
Thats what happened that first Christmas. For centuries man has looked into the heavens longing for God to step out of the frame, and at Bethlehem thats exactly what God did. Incredible and unbelievable as it may appear to a modern man, the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was a visitor from Heaven itself. He was God Incarnate.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.
L UKE 2:812
Those were no ordinary sheep...
no common flocks,
huddled in sleep
among the fields,
the layered rocks,
near Bethlehem
That Night;
but those
selected for the Temple sacrifice:
theirs to atone
for sins
they had not done.
How right
the angels should appear
to them
That Night.
Those were no usual shepherds there,
but outcast shepherds
whose unusual care
of special sheep
made it impossible to keep
Rabbinic law,
which therefore banned them.
How right
the angels should appear
to them
That Night.
Ruth Bell Grahams Collected Poems
A tiny secluded manger, with its sweet-smelling straw and its lowing cattle, comprised the homely stage upon which the most striking and significant drama of the centuries was enacted. It was there that God, in the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ, became identified with man. In meekness and humility He came to earth as the Prince of Peace.
This Christmas Night
Christmas is a time of miracles.
The angelic chorus, lowly shepherds, a humble manger as the birthplace of deityall are miraculous happenings.
K ENNETH W. O SBECK
Away in a manger,
no crib for a bed,
the little Lord Jesus
laid down His sweet head;
the stars in the sky
looked down where He lay,
the little Lord Jesus,
asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing;
the Baby awakes,
but little Lord Jesus,
no crying He makes;
I love Thee, Lord Jesus!
look down from the sky,
and stay by my cradle
till morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus,
I ask Thee to stay
close by me forever,
and love me, I pray;
bless all the dear children
in Thy tender care,
and fit us for heaven,
to live with Thee there.
John Thomas McFarland, 18511913
T he virgin-born baby was God in human form. He humbled Himself, He took the form of a servant, He was made in your likeness and mine, He identified Himself with the problems of the human race. And thus it was that the apostle John wrote, The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, as of the only begotten of the Father.) (John 1:14 KJV ).
In the early days of the nineteenth century, the world was following, with fear and trembling, the march of Napoleon across Europe. Day after day they waited with impatience for the latest news of the wars. And no one was paying any attention to the babies that were being born. In just one year, lying midway between Trafalgar and Waterloo, there came into the world a host of heroes. During that year of 1809, listen to the people who were born in that yearwhen everybody was taken up with the problems of Napoleon: Gladstone was born in Liverpool, England; Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, England; Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Frederic Chopin was born in Warsaw, Poland; Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany; and Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. But nobody thought of babies. Everybody was thinking of battles.
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