{"id":49,"date":"2016-12-06T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2020-12-25T01:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T01:16:36","slug":"the-christians-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/the-christians-god\/","title":{"rendered":"3. The Christian’s God"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Love Story of Christmas began before the creation of time. . .<\/p>\n

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Our faith does not create the Christmas story.<\/p>\n

It originated in the mind of a loving God before He created man in His image.<\/p>\n

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He created us to be loving.<\/p>\n

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By His design\u00a0. . .<\/p>\n

mothers nurture love in their children.<\/p>\n

Love by definition is an affectionate concern for others.<\/p>\n

It requires a community.<\/p>\n

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  1. A lover\u2026<\/li>\n
  2. an object of affection, or beloved\u2026<\/li>\n
  3. and an awareness or spirit of love between.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Father, Son, and Spirit of traditional Christianity \u2026<\/p>\n

    The three distinct personalities that make one loving creator.<\/p>\n

    Without an inseparable community of three, God cannot be love.<\/p>\n

    Can you find footprints, images of God\u2019s trinity, or personality of love in His creation?<\/p>\n

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    Jesus Gives the Gift of Love<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

    We measure volume in three distinctively different ways…<\/p>\n

    1. height…<\/p>\n

    2. length…<\/p>\n

    3. depth…<\/p>\n

    but they make one inseparable space.<\/p>\n

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    Which of these four is the most important?<\/p>\n

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    Can love exist with a domineering self-centered lover?<\/p>\n

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    God reveals Himself as\u00a0an equally affectionate community of three. . .<\/p>\n

    Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

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    They\u00a0are not selfish\u2026<\/p>\n

    this would be the opposite of love.<\/p>\n

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    Love is the glory of God, and the Bible says we often fall short<\/span><\/span><\/a> of that glory.<\/p>\n

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    Yet the Christmas story isn’t about our sin.<\/p>\n

    The\u00a0Christmas story reveals God’s awesome ability to nurture\u00a0love in the human soul. . \u00a0. <\/strong>which of course were His intentions before the beginning of time.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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    This holiday season, prayerfully consider giving a gift of consolation to grieving families in your community. Learn more at our devotional website thoughts4loss.com<\/span><\/a><\/pre>\n
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    . . . Meditate in His Presence day and night . . .<\/em><\/h4>\n
    \"gift96\"<\/a>\"gift96\"<\/a>Psalm 1 (paraphrase)<\/em><\/h6>\n
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    photos courtesy unsplash.com photographers<\/p>\n
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    The Love Story of Christmas began before the creation of time. . . * Our faith does not create the Christmas story. It originated in the mind of a loving God before He created man in His image. He created us to be loving. By His design\u00a0. . . mothers nurture love in their children. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}