Christmas is Complicated
Chris Pratt
December 13, 2024

Christmas is Complicated • • December 15, 2024

Colossians 3
4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

This Christmas, choose to

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the
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of Jesus.

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(anechó): to put up with; carry the weight of; endure.

This Christmas, choose to
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the
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of others.

This Christmas, choose to
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the
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in people instead of
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their
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.

Be a continual
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to those who are a
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problem.

13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

This Christmas, choose to
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those who have
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you.

Being offended is
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, living offended is a
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.

14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

This Christmas, choose to
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everyone.

Don’t listen to
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; listen to
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.

Jesus didn’t tell us to be
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. Jesus told us to be
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.








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