This morning I wanted to take a second to admire this nativity set. I’m sure many of you had these in your homes or in your churches growing up - but if you’re not familiar, a nativity set is a little frozen moment in time with little figures for each of the characters in the Christmas story. I like this one because it’s for little kids. When I was growing up we had a very delicate wooden set that my dad got when he went to Israel - very precious, and probably very expensive.
I love a good proposal story. Guy’s all nervous, girl’s all excited. Surprise, ring, happiness, etc, etc. So I wanted to start this morning by telling you my proposal story - how I asked my incredible girlfriend to become my wife. Now at the time, I was living in Chicago - I’d already started my first semester of seminary down there. And Sara was still living up in Grand Rapids - we were doing the whole long distance relationship thing - which was rough. And we’d talked about
