The Reality of Christmas in Bethlehem with the Chappells (week of Dec. 19, first to watch)

[@starbright47]

Just powerful and so meaningful. Thank you to the beautiful couple and your insights, and thank you Kerry for your time and effort. Merry Christmas to All❣

[@TheScripturesAreReal]

That is just good, clean Christmas fun, isn't it!?!

[@audratalcott5]

I loved this weeks podcasts Kerry! The best kind of conversations are the ones that make our hearts swell and burn and give us a desire to give more of ourselves. Hearing the young man talk about the hymn Angels we have heard on high and why it’s significant to him and then your lifelong friends reminiscing about your Christmas together in Jerusalem and some of their family Christmas traditions was really tender. I especially appreciated the connection your friend made about “building” being connected to becoming holy in the scriptures. So much to take from that and apply in our lives today. AND then hearing you talk about building our homes as a continuation of the temple was awesome too. I know these things, I consciously work on these things daily and I felt the spirit confirm the truth of these things. Thanks for sharing-I look forward to next year’s podcasts with more personal stories like these.

[@TheScripturesAreReal]

Christmas stuff is always so fun, isn't it!?!

[@minniesgr1nd2r21]

Will you ask Sister Chappell to add her talk with only scriptures about Christ in the show notes so we can read it? I love your show. Thank you

[@TheScripturesAreReal]

I will ask!

[@TheScripturesAreReal]

Here is what didn't fit in the show notes: Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. 15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. 17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. 18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 ¶Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. John 18:37 To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. D&C 76:22 And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives! 23 For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father.