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How to Find Real Peace This Christmas (Part 2)

Yesterday, we began looking at what it will take to find real, lasting peace with God, with yourself, and with others this Christmas season. You need to take three steps to find it. First, you need to reach a moment of clarity.

How to Find Real Peace This Christmas (Part 1)

You���ll hear the word ���peace��� used all the time during the Christmas season. It���s a powerful word, in part because it���s something all of us want. We long for peace ��� peace with God, peace within, and peace with others.

Three Kinds of Peace God Wants to Give You This Christmas

You may have had a good year. You may have had a bad year. But as we come to the end of 2016, you���re likely pretty tired. You���re worn out physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Say Goodbye to Fear

Some people are afraid of Christmas. They fight nativity scenes and people saying ���Merry Christmas.��� They even threaten lawsuits. They fight Christmas because they fear it.

Don���t Let the Familiar Steal Your Christmas

You���ve likely celebrated Christmas most of your life. More than likely, you���ve heard the Christmas story before too. You know all about Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. You���ve heard about the shepherds and the wise men. You���ve sung songs about them. You���ve watched them in Christmas plays.

Is There Room in Your Inn?

No holiday on our calendar gets as much advertising time as Christmas. This month you can���t turn on your television, open up a website, or check your e-mail without hearing the word ���Christmas.��� You see beautifully decorated trees everywhere you turn. You���ll notice lots of chubby guys with white beards in red and white suits.

Trust One Day at a Time

God wants you to trust him one day at a time: ���Give us this day our daily bread.���
Not for next week. Not for next year. Not for next month. Just one day at a time.

God Is Waiting for You to Ask

God is the source of everything. Everything you see in the world and everything you can���t see in the world and in the universe, God made. He���s the source of every good thing.

Your Daily Bread

When Jesus says we���re to pray, ���Give us this day our daily bread,��� he���s talking about far more than just bread. In fact, the Bible tells us that bread represents four things.

Hold Up Your White Flag

Surrender means leaving the future to God. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, ���Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths��� (ESV).