CONTENTS
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ISSUE 6, 2015
DAUGHTERS OF ZION MAGAZINE
Editors corner
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Wishing You & Your Loved Ones A Merry
Christmas and a wonderful Year 2015. May
you celebrate many more Christmases
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Emmanuel: God with Us The Heart
of the Gospel Christmas Sermon
Colin Smith is Senior Pastor of The Orchard
Evangelical Free Church
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Lessons From The Manger
“Christmas is full of surprises.” Somewhere
in my reading this week I ran across that
sentence.
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Christmas Gifts
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Bells in My Head
Before we jump into the text, let me add a
personal note. I suppose I have heard this
verse read hundreds
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The Sign of the President
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I. His Humanity
“You will find a baby”
How To Enjoy Christmas Day Spent
All by Yourself
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Perhaps an illustration will help. Let’s
suppose that you have just come to
America from another country. You know
“A baby.” That’s all the Greek says. The
word means “an infant”
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II. His Helplessness
“Wrapped in cloths”
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In that day newborn babies were wrapped
in strips of cloth to protect
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III. His Humility
“Lying in a manger”
One problem we have with the story is
that the word “manger” doesn’t easily
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