Katelynn Hardee is a kindergartner in Vista, California. She is also a hero to 123 students at her elementary school.
Katelynn overheard a parent say she was having difficulty paying for an after-school program. Her mother explained that “sometimes people aren’t as fortunate and that we need to try to be kind and give when we can.”
So Katelynn decided to set up a stand to sell hot cocoa, cider, and cookies. She donated the money she collected, which went toward paying off the negative lunch balances of students at her school. As a result, according to the school’s principal, “other students are already talking about ways they can also make a difference.”
This Christmas week, we’re asking what Christmas can teach our post-Christian culture about Christ. On Monday, we focused on the power of Christmas; yesterday, we considered the humility of Christmas. Today we’ll explore the grace of Christmas.
If a child can change the world, anyone can change the world. Our past is no barrier to God’s future. How we begin the race is not as important as how we finish.
What in your past bothers you today? What guilt or burdens are on your heart? Let’s find God’s Christmas grace wherever we need his grace the most.
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The book of Revelation describes Jesus as “the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world” (13:8 NIV). 1 Peter 1 points to “the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot” (v. 19) and says that “he was foreknown before the foundation of the world” (v. 20).
In other words, before God made the world, his Son was already a sacrificial lamb for the sins of the world.
Romans 5:8 makes this fact plain: “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” “While we were still sinners”—before we had done one thing to earn…
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