heading toward christmas thinking about gifts matthew 6:25-26
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Heading Toward Christmas Thinking
about Gifts
Matthew 6:25-26
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that plugs in.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that plugs in.
Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that plugs in.
Don’t buy clothing that involves sizes.
Avoid all things useful.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-
improvement.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-
improvement. Don’t buy jewelry.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Don’t buy anything that involves weight loss or self-
improvement. Don’t buy jewelry.
Do not buy her frilly under things.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Finally… Don’t spend too much.
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What NOT to Buy Your Wife:
Finally… Don’t spend too much.
But… Don’t spend too little.
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God Knows Gifts
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God Knows GiftsEvery good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17
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Gifts we’ve been given by God
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Gifts we’ve been given by God
Physical Gifts
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Gifts we’ve been given by God
Physical GiftsMaterial Gifts
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Gifts we’ve been given by God
Physical GiftsMaterial GiftsSpiritual Gifts
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Gifts we’ve been given by God
Physical GiftsMaterial GiftsSpiritual GiftsThe Church
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God Given Physical Gifts
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not
from us.”
II Corinthians 4:7
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God Given Physical Gifts
“The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Genesis 2:7
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“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:13-14
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Are We Thankful for our Families?
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“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.”
Proverbs 18:22
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“While I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.”
Ecclesiastes. 7:28
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“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
Proverbs 17:6
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God Given Material Gifts
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God Given Material Gifts
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.”
Matthew 6:25-26
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God Given Material Gifts
“Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?”
Matthew 6:25-26
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God Given Material Gifts
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.”
Matthew 6:25-26
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God Given Material Gifts
“Are you not much more valuable than they?”
Matthew 6:25-26
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God Given Spiritual Gifts
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God Given Spiritual Gifts
The Bible
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“I would recommend you either believe God to the hilt, or else not believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it.”
Charles Spurgeon
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The Bible“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11
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The Bible“The Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
Rob Faust
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The Bible“I hold fast to your statutes, O LORD; do not let me be put to shame.” If we hold fast to the Word of God we will not be put to shame in life.”
Psalm 119:31
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The Bible“My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.”
Psalm 119:81
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The Bible“If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.”
Psalm 119:92-93
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The Bible“Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
Psalm 119:98-99
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The Bible“I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.” “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.”
Psalm 119:100 & 105
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God Gift of the Church
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God Gift of the Church
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God Knows Gifts
“And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer.”
Isaiah 65:24
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God Knows Gifts
’Tis the season to remember and give thanks!
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