1. Slide 1 A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS LIST FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

2. Slide 2  THE FIRST STEP ON OUR JOURNEY TO CELEBRATE A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS IS TO FOCUS ON LOVING THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES.

3. Slide 3 1 John 4:7-12 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world

4. Slide 4 1 John 4:7-12 that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love

5. Slide 5 1 John 4:7-12 one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

6. Slide 6 A Simple Christmas Recognize it is all about the “Love Story.”

7. Slide 7 1 John 4:7-12 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

8. Slide 8  Make it all about the “Love Story.”

9. Slide 9 A Simple Christmas Recognize it is all about the “Love Story.” Embrace the one another concept.

10. Slide 10 1 John 4:7-12 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

11. Slide 11 Have a Simple Christmas Loving One Another. Make a list of the most important people in your life. Make it a point to express your appreciation.

12. Slide 12 Have a Simple Christmas Loving One Another. Make a list of the most important people in your life. Make it a point to express your appreciation. Make a ‘wish list’ for each one.

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14. Slide 14 Eph 1:18-19 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

15. Slide 15 Eph 3:16-19 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power,

16. Slide 16 Eph 3:16-19 together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

17. Slide 17 A Simple Christmas Recognize it is all about the “Love Story.” Embrace the one another concept. Look for blessing through connecting.

18. Slide 18 1 John 4:7-12 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.