Lifespring! Why Christmas Show

 

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Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Steve and James join you for the final day of the 2009 Lifespring! Why Christmas Show and find out a bit about the birth of Jesus, the real reason for Christmas!

They will also pull the winner of the Christmas CD competition out of Santa’s hat! If you didn’t win, you can still get the CD from BryanDuncan.com. Thanks to all who entered!

Congratulations to our winner, Rhonda Evans!

Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/birth

 

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It’s Christmas Eve! That means one thing, Santa has started his run around the world! Follow where he’s got to at: http://santaupdate.com

James also reads a poem about Christmas Eve written by his Grandmother.

Christmas Eve by Mary Cooper

On Christmas Eve my mother read
The story once again
Of how the little child was born
And of the three Wise men

And how by following the star
They found Him where he lay
And brought Him gifts; and that is why
We keep our Christmas day

And when she read it all, I went
And looked across the snow
And thought of Jesus coming
As He did so long ago.

I looked into the East and saw
A great star blazing bright;
There were three men upon the road
All black against the light

I thought I heard the angels sing
Away upon the hill
I held my breath… it seemed as if
The whole great world were still

It seemed to me the little child
Was being born again
And very near… and THEN somehow
Was NOW… or NOW was THEN.

 

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Steve’s getting very excited as it’s nearly Christmas and he’s looking forward to getting some presents!

Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/presents

 

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On today’s show James will tell you a bit about the history of Christmas Carols and plays a version of ‘Oh Come all ye Faithful’ by Jill Parr.

Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/carols

 

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Remember the fun Steve and James had last year trying to learning how to say Happy or Merry Christmas in different languages? Well they’re back trying it again, with varying degrees of success!!!

Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/merrychristmas