Dec 25 - 1 John 2:7, 3:11, 4:7,9,10

Merry Christmas - day 4

All year long, our lessons have been following the chronological version of "The Bible in a Year." As your Christmas present, look what was ordained for today ...

Beloved, I am writing you

no new commandment

but an old commandment that

you have had from the beginning ...

For this is message you have heard

from the beginning that

we should love one another.

Beloved, let us love one another,

because love is from God ...

[and] God's love was revealed

among us in this way:

God sent his only son into the world

so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God

but that he loved us and

sent his Son to be

the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 2:7, 3:11, 4:7,9,10

In Christ's Love,

a guy who's very thankful

for the love from above

and for the love down here

(especially in this wonderful

First-John-Congregation that loves one another

... and reaches out in love to the world.

Thank you for being you. Merry Christmas)