Christmas Story – By Lakshman Navaratne Isaiah 9:6, For us a Child is Born Unwritten truth of the Christmas Story The First and the Last Christmas for Humanity. I am the First and the Last says the Almighty! Revelation 1:8, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human mind has ever perceived, the secret of the “Chosen Generation”, waiting and ready for the last Christmas. Jesus said” Blessed is the meek, they shall inherit the Earth” A chosen generation living on earth today, with the baptism of Pentecost believes in their heart, “This Carbon world was made for us”. [B]  Only the Bible Scripture provides the true evidence, without a shadow of doubt, the prophesy of the written word, before the foundation of the Earth. The spirit ...

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AN INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2022 A Christmas story                              THE MANGER In 1994, two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics based on biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments and a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage. They relate the following story in their own words: It was nearing the holiday season, 1994, time for our orphans to hear, for the first time, the traditional story of Christmas. We told them about Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem. Finding no room in the inn, the couple went to a stable, where the baby Jesus was born and placed in a manger. Throughout the story, the children and ...

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First Christmas tree – by Des Kelly Something entirely different for our many thousands of avid readers. A good Christmas story, if ever there was one. To the original Scribe whose name is Dennis Dullewe and of course, Keith Bennett, I proffer my thanks. Also, thank you, Charmaine Gunatilleke, for the beautiful picture of a Christmas tree, actually the first that most of us will see, as Christmas is still about a month away. It is what Dennis wrote, that interested me, and I am positive, will interest most e’Lanka readers. I will not keep you good people in any suspence, but, like Covid, Satan is still around, as Dennis points out, and we have to be very careful, or end up in a place where climate change has reached it’s zenith and worse still, will always remain very very hot.I am beginning to feel a bit thirsty, even as ...

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