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Jesus has all the ingredients for a great picnic, the right moment, a memorable location, some good friends and more than enough food (as it turns out). What does all this tell us about him?

The mind-boggling truth of Christmas is this: Jesus is not God ‘up there’. He's God down here. God with us. God among us.

Unless we are building our lives - or community, or church, or whatever - around the Lord Jesus, our lives and our work will ultimately be empty, without meaning and purpose.

Life or death? Blessings or curses? Jesus or not? Choose life!

Jesus doesn’t call us all to stop work and just be spiritual for the rest of our lives (and on into eternity). He comes alongside us in our work, and breathes his life into it.

Suppose there is a God who is completely holy, totally good, and all powerful and wise. How would we approach such a God so as to know Him?

Every church in every place at every time is in need of reform and renewal. But we need to beware lest we despise the church of God, and are blind to his work in history. We may safely say that God has not abandoned his church.

There is a sentence of death hanging over us and we can’t save ourselves: we need someone else to come in and do what we can’t, and that is to rescue us and put us in our ‘forever family’.