Has Christmas lost it’s meaning?

What is Christmas to you?
Is Christmas all about shopping, waiting in line, going in debt, gaining weight, visiting relatives, and holiday music and Christmas parties?

Apparently a lot of American’s associate those things with Christmas and aren’t too merry about it. In fact it seems that most American’s have something about Christmas they they dread. Here are some survey …

Christmas Snowflakes

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There are a lot of spiritual truths we can relate to snowflakes. Use this Christmas themed object lesson with your youth or children.

Materials
Thin paper like tissue paper works best, but you can do this activity with newsprint, Christmas wrapping paper, origami paper, a napkin, or even an ordinary sheet of paper.

Preparation
Give each youth an identical …

Five Loaves and 2 fishes

Great look at the story of the boy with 5 loaves and 2 fishes.


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Christmas Church Sign

A church was preparing for Christmas services. The pastor decided he wanted a banner made for the entryway and had a parishioner call the sign company.

The parishioner told the man on the phone the “message” he wanted and the “dimensions” needed for the entryway.

The sign came back a few days later… “Unto Mary Jesus was born, six feet …