Merry Christmas!

Well the kids are in bed. Molly and I just got everything done that we needed to do for the big day. Its gonna be fun! We got home tonite from visiting family in Birmingham for the past few days. It was nice but theres no place like home. I am so glad we started coming home on Christmas eve so we could establish our own family traditions of getting up on Christmas morning and coming in to see the gifts. But the coolest thing was the discussion we had tonite in the boys room about Christmas beeing about Jesus and not just gifts. David my oldest is really starting to get it a little bit. He really understands a lot about Jesus. He just about quoted verses from Luke that speak of Christs birth. I was impressed. I love my family. My New Years Resolution is going to be to try to let my hope and faith in Jesus Christ show more through my actions and reactions. I was really challenged through a sermon by Buddy Champion at First Baptist Trussville Sunday morning. He preached about Simeon the elderly man in the temple courts that saw the baby Jesus with Mary and Joseph. He preached about how faithful Simeon was and how his faith showed. Simeons faith was the real deal. We live in a society that is looking for a bargain…a quick fix. We do this in our faith too. People attend church thinking they can do enough to just get by. It challenged me to not have a bargain type of Christianity. True faith may cost a little more but in the end it works every time. True faith takes commitment to real bible study and prayer and devotional life. Sometimes the bargains that we fall for work for a while but eventually break down or let us down. Too many people are walking around today carrying some bargain type of Christianity. Anyway…I hope you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy and Blessed New Year!

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