CHRISTMAS
FESTIVAL
The King is Born!
Christmas is the world’s most famous festival which celebrates Christ’s Birth on 25th December. Christmas is preceded by Advent, a 28-day period to prepare for Christ’s Birth by honoring the values He brought to the world like love and giving to the needy. Christmas doesn’t end on the 25th! In fact, it goes onto the 12 days after Christmas that celebrates the born Baby Jesus with gifts.
“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” The Bible, Luke 2:10-12
Christmas Meaning
The word Christmas comes from the phrase Christ’s Mass, which dates back more than 1,000 years after Jesus Christ’s birth. Christmas is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Source: Wikipedia.
Christ (Crīst, genitive Crīstes) is from Greek Khrīstos (Χριστός), a translation of Hebrew Māšîaḥ (מָשִׁיחַ). Messiah means Anointed. Mass (mæsse) is from Latin missa, the celebration of Jesus’s Last Supper during Easter Festival.
Christmas is not about gifts. You’re filling someone else’s pockets. Oops, we said it. @thegodco (image credit: shutterstock.com)
Why Christmas?
The Good Engineer
As a woman created by God, your most basic human right is to know Him. No one can ever take that right away from you because God gave you that right when He created you. Why is it your most basic human right? When God formed your body, He placed His salvation in you through Christ, His Son. God literally tattooed your right to become His child through Christ inside you from the go, regardless of gender, beliefs, ethnicity and orientation. Whatever your behavior and character, God valued you enough before you were conceived by ingraining His Grace through Christ in you.
We are not just chatting blah-blah-blah here. This is backed by science. So backed, it’s quite frightening to see the supreme engineering that is God’s mind. In every human body, there are laminins, which are large cell-adhesive glycoproteins required for the formation and function of basement membranes in all animals. Humans are animals, yeah. The short of it is, if our laminins malfunction, we malfunction too.
Now, let’s see the supreme engineer at play: structural studies by electron microscopy in the early 1980s revealed a cross-shaped molecule, which subsequently was shown to consist of three distinct polypeptide chains.
You read that right. Science proves that laminins are integral to the structural scaffolding of almost every tissue of an organism—secreted and incorporated into cell-associated extracellular matrices. Basically, without these cross-shaped molecules that make you function, you die.
God embedded Christ’s Cross in you at the base, that is, at the planning stage, before He formed the first-ever humans. Even knowing that Adam and Eve would sin against Him, God embedded His Salvation through Jesus in you. God’s Goodness through Christ also makes your physical body breathe, think, walk and sleep. You cannot survive without your laminin molecules in this life—just as you cannot survive without your laminin molecule in the other life.
Adam and Eve
It all started with Adam and Eve. When God created them, He placed them in a garden called Eden, gave them everything they could ever wish for, and asked them to multiply. So basically, make love, have babies and be merry. The tree of good and evil was in the Garden of Eden, and God told Adam and Eve not to eat its fruit or they would die. But did they listen? No. That pair of know-it-alls ate the fruit when a snake in the grass tempted Eve. Their bad behavior unleashed a chain of events that saw them being cursed by God and separated from Him and Eternal life. Read the full story.
God
When Adam and Eve fell out with God, so did we as their descendants. And the only way to right things between God and us was for Jesus Christ (God’s Son) to be born as a human.
Jesus
Jesus was born to reconcile us with God and (with the same stone) give us daily and eternal peace of mind. His birth bridged the gap between God and us and made us children of God.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. — The Bible, John 3:16
Little Christmas Book
This page is your ultimate guide to all things Christmas Festival from preparing for Christ’s Birth to celebrating it. The Little Christmas Book is the mini version of Christmas Festival. At just 4 pages long, you get Christmas Festival at a glance. Download the Little Christmas Book now for free by clicking on the cover of your choice above.
Christmas Prints
Download Christmas cute and eye-catching book covers and prints by saving the images of your choice on your device. They make gorgeous wallpapers on your lock and home screens.
CHRIST SHOWER
Christ Shower celebrates the impending birth of Baby Jesus. At a baby shower, family and friends help the new parents get what they need for their baby. For your Christ Shower, ask family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to bring food and drinks to your home to toast God for sending His Only Son to give us daily and eternal peace of mind.
GLOW PARTY
In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus gives us the assignment to hook people up with God and Him. However, it can be hard to talk about God and Christ to people, even knowing the great benefits they will get from knowing them. But fear not. We’ve come up with a novel idea to bring God and Christ to your friends and family – a party! So, order food and drinks (and/or self-care boxes), grab your Glow Party and Glam Glow Hostess kits, and have fun.
GOSPEL GLOW
When you subscribe to Glow Club, we donate free digital copies of Glow to fifty women who don’t know God and Christ. When you buy a digital copy of Glow, we donate free digital copies of Glow to five women who don’t know God and Christ. Get Glow.
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