The Gifts We Bring (Part 4)
Luke 2:1-20
Christmas Eve 2024
The magi brought notable and costly gifts to honor the Christ child. The shepherds, on the other hand, have neither the means nor the foresight to bring such gifts to Mary and her new child. So they offer the only thing they can: the gift of their attention. What might it mean for us to give our attention to a God who dwells among us?
Bryant Anderson preaching.
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Current Series: The Gifts We Bring
The magi of the Christmas story brought three gifts to the infant Jesus: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Tradition has long ascribed symbolic meaning to these gifts: gold symbolizes Jesus's royalty, frankincense, his divinity, and myrrh, his mortality. This series delves into these three gifts, examines the significance of these three aspects of Jesus's nature, and urges us to think seriously about what gifts we ourselves bring to the Christ child.
