#5 - Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 5) - Remembering Christ at Christmas

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Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 4) - His Savior Names
Celebrating Advent with Laura Rainey Dries (Part 5) - Remembering Christ at Christmas

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Remembering Christ at Christmas

Guests: Dennis and Barbara Rainey and Laura Rainey Dries

From the series: Celebrating Advent (Day 5 of 5)

Air date: December 2, 2016

Bob: The season of Advent is a time for us to be thinking about when Jesus came and about the fact that He is coming again. Here’s Barbara Rainey.

Barbara: We know that when He came—His first advent—when He came and was born as a baby in a manger, He came to serve us, He came to redeem us, and He came to deliver us. He was still King in all eternity, but He didn’t walk on earth as the King. He walked on earth as a Servant and as a Savior; but someday, He will come back. There will be a second advent of Jesus Christ. And when He comes back again, He will come back as King of kings and Lord of lords.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Friday, December 2nd. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey. I’m Bob Lepine. In the songs we sing during this part of the year, in our traditions, and even in how we decorate our homes, there’s an opportunity for us to be making spiritual statements and reminding ourselves and others of the reason for this season. We’ll explore that more today. Stay with us.

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And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us on the Friday edition. Here it is December. I always think of December as a good time just for reflection—although, typically, not the first part of December. Usually, it’s the end of December when you have a few minutes to catch your breath and kind of reflect on what the year has been. Usually, the first part of the month, you’ve got—

Dennis: It’s a sprint.

Bob: —you’ve just got so much going on. But this has been a great year for us, at FamilyLife. We’ve been celebrating our 40th anniversary as a ministry this year. It has been fun for us to take some time and just look back on how we’ve seen God at work in this ministry for four decades.

Dennis: And I was recently looking back on how God worked in the past 12 months.

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—doing it around the person of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Bible. I believe this is needed, now, as never before.

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Now, this Sunday is going to be—actually, it’s going to be the first Sunday in December, but it’s the second Sunday in the Advent season. You know, Christmas is on a Sunday this year.

Dennis: That’s right.

Bob: Will your church cancel, or will they have services? Do you know?

Dennis: That’s a good question!

Barbara: I don’t know.

Bob: It’s always hard to know what to do, because Christmas morning is such a family time. There are so many traditions that to try to say, “Okay; we want to go to church too,” just feels out of the normal rhythm—I mean, I get that.

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Dennis: Yes; and I’m thinking of one child in our family who—if I would have said, “You know, we’re all just going to get cleaned up and go to church first before we get about celebrating Christmas,”—

Bob: Yes?

Dennis: —I think this child—she might have completely split in half. [Laughter]

Bob: Disinherited herself from the family—

Barbara: Yes; she would have.

Bob: —and said, “I’m joining somebody else’s family for this Christmas.”

Dennis: In fact, she’s out in the production area of our studio here—Laura. We’ve asked Laura to come in here, recently, a couple of times. So, Laura, would you come into the studio and just explain how difficult it was for you to wait—the concept of waiting?

Bob: And while you’re coming in—and Laura, welcome, by the way—welcome back into the studio. While you are coming in, can we just acknowledge that there might be a heredity link to Laura’s impatience that, maybe, somebody—[Laughter]

Dennis: Now, why would we want to meddle in that stuff?

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Bob: Barbara, would you like to explain why there might have been a heredity link to this? [Laughter] Do you know anybody else who might h...