Points To Ponder 12/25/2012

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen.

But the interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number of people were themselves the most widely disliked.

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BIBLE QUIZ: 
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Countdown to Christmas…
 

Matthew 2:1-23

1      After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem

2     and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

3     When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

4     When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

5     "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:

6     "'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'" (IRONY = the religious leaders knew where to look for Jesus..but it doesn’t appear that a single one of them went to personally check it out)

7     Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.

8     He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

9     After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

10    When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

11    On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

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