If you were to find one of the MANY gifts in the Christmas classic, “12 Days of Christmas”…how would react?
It’s Who Knew Wednesday on The Afternoon Drive, and we tested your Christmas music knowledge…of the 364 presents (when you imagine getting the gifts each day), which one would you be excited about…and which one not so much? Drop your answers here! https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1126932696100191&set=a.392606606199474
Our friend Colleen shared an incredible story of God’s faithfulness with a wallet her husband’s parents gave to him…that they found four months later and had the perfect amount of money they needed! He is always faithful!
Congratulations to Bob and Kim, our Christmas Gift Exchange winners for today! They’ve both been entered into our drawing for our SEVEN GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! Keep listening for your chance to win!
Congratulations to Chris from Gambier, who guessed our two-week stumper!!
I was born November 27, 1701 in Uppsala, Sweden.
My father was an astronomy professor and my uncle was a botanist
I chose physics and astronomy as my areas of emphasis
I created a temperature scale that now bears my name
I originally scaled 0 degrees as boiling and 100 degrees as freezing, but that was eventually reverted
I also participated in an expedition to the Arctic Circle to measure the shape of the earth
It is Swedish native Anders Celsius! Chris wins two 5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica.
Today we shared from the Our Daily BreadChristmas devotional book, ‘Celebrating Jesus.’
Jonathon shared ‘Mary Knew’ from Dave Branon:
Four-year-old Kaitlyn was oblivious to everything else in the room. There were no thoughts of stockings hung and wrapped presents. She was simply content to play with our manger scene and its nativity characters. What piqued my interest was something else she was doing as she moved Mary, Joseph, and the Babe around: She was singing “Mary, did you know?” over and over-words she had heard sung by others. As she held Mary, she poignantly asked her if she knew who her precious baby boy was. Kaitlyn’s question for Mary is the vital one everyone needs to answer. Do we know that Jesus is the One predicted in Genesis 3 to strike Satan’s heel (v. 15)-to gain victory over Satan, sin, and death by His death on the cross? Do we know that He’s the Messiah promised in Isaiah 53 and the One Micah prophesied would be born in Bethlehem hundreds of years later? (5:2). We know that His name-Jesus-means that He will save His people from their sins (MATTHEW 1:21). We also know that Mary’s baby grew up and chose to die on the cross as the Savior of the world (LUKE 1:31; 2:30-32). The “Son of the Most High” (1:32) has invited us to know Him and be loved by Him. May we choose to know Jesus, our precious Savior, more and more each day!
Joe shared ‘Captain of a Motley Crew’ from Glenn Packham:
As a child, I always found Christmas Eve one of the most A exciting days of the year. I knew there would be presents in the morning, a feast that night, and a candlelight service at church. But it was also exciting because I never knew who was going to end up at our house for dinner. My parents loved inviting people who were alone or had nowhere to go to come share a meal with us. Folks from church, from their places of work, our friends from school-it was always a motley crew. David was on the run from King Saul and in need of good friends to surround him (1 SAMUEL 22:1-2). He needed the right community to help him in his crisis. Instead, what he found were hundreds of men who were also in trouble-those “in trouble or in debt or… discontented” (v. 2). Yet, David became captain over the motley crew and they trusted him. Jesus-the true and better David-is exactly the kind of person who gathered those around Him that society had discarded. Throughout the gospels, it’s often the sick and the disabled, the outcast, and the sinner who find belonging and healing in Jesus. The church is meant to be a kind of cave of Adullam (v. 1). It’s not a perfect community, but a ragtag group in need of a loving, healing Captain.
Name a place that’s open on Christmas Day: 1. Grocery store/Walmart/Kroger (23 votes) 2. Gas stations (20) 3. Fast Food restaurants (19) 4. Waffle House/Denny’s (12) 5. Movie theaters (8) 6. Airports (5) 7. Hospitals (3) 8. Hotels (2)
Congratulations to Tysha from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.
Driving Notes 