New Testament

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            Imagine if you will of being summoned to appear before a great world leader, how would you prepare yourself for this meeting?  As I thought about this, I considered how I would prepare. This has never happened to me, I have never met anyone who would even be considered famous, let alone one who would be called a world leader.  But if I were summoned, I would want my clothes to be just right, I would want my appearance to be clean and well groomed, and I would want to have the right words to speak.

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            In life we see contrasts displayed in many ways, one of those ways is seen in opposites.  For example: light compared to darkness; love compared to hate; sweet compared to sour; man compared to woman.  When we compare things to one another we find the differences or the contrasts between them.

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            Growing up in the church, the son of the church’s pastor I remember each Christmas my dad setting up on the church lawn a life-size nativity.  It had everything:  Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus in the manager.  It had sheep, a donkey, and shepherds.  It had wise men and camels, and they were all life size.  They were only two dimensional, life-size pictures mounted on plywood but impressive looking none the less, especially the camels.