1. PREPARE HIM ROOM Making room for Christ this Christmas

2. Joshua Bell in concert Joshua Bell in DC subway

3. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 1.Simplify your schedule (Matt 13:3-9,22)

4. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas Luke 10:38-42 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me”…

5. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas Luke 10:38-42 …But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

6. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 1.Simplify your schedule (Matt 13:3-9,22) Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God…”

7. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need Matthew 9:10-11 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

8. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need Matthew 5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

9. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need Matthew 5:48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

10. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

11. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need Philippians 3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but “rubbish” so that I may gain Christ

12. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 2.Recognize your need Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

13. Keep Christ 1 st this Christmas 1.Simplify your schedule 2.Recognize your need Read Isaiah 40-66, one chapter per day Luke 1-24, one chapter per day