Do you stress about finding just the right gift for everyone
on your Christmas list? Does it make the season more a hassle than
a joy? Christmas isn’t about perfect presents for people, as if it were
their birthday — or ours. Christmas is about the perfect presence of
Immanuel, God with us, through the birth of Jesus; it’s His birthday,
after all!
If Christmas Is Not Your Birthday (Abingdon), Slaughter writes, “How
funny that it can be so hard to find gifts that will please certain family
members or friends — the people who seem to have everything —
and yet it is so clear what the Lord of lords and King of kings wants
for His birthday. God wants you — your tim
