SERMON FOR CHRIST CHURCH, AUGHTON 
Christmas day talk

WE all enjoy receiving Christmas presents
Giving Christmas presents good fun too.

Difficult part is getting them
Especially for some people

Some people are easy to buy for
See them – walking Christmas list

(is that you)

others dififfiuclt to buy for
think for hours – and still nothing turns up
what do you do?
Either buy socks
Or gift card.
Is that you

What makes person very difficult to buy for
Have everything they need
Very disheartneding to see they are selling your gift on eBay

Very fussy
You give your present 
They may actually say thank you but I was hoping for a GXT5 not a GXT4

Just very boring
Like me

Daughters plead to me for a list
Do my best
Sit down
Take last years, leave on those things no one bought for me
(usually the whole list)
then think!

Struggle
I’m okay for Runnning tops
Pens
Little ornaments to hold my car keys

This year – give my family a break
running out of boxer shorts in August 
Decided not to buy any!
(irony – too boring)

So what makes a person easy to buy for?
Three things
1 – easily pleased

whatever you give, face lights up
2  - lots of interests
huge variety of things you can buy, of all prices

3 – most important:
it helps hugely if they are poor

Jesus is good news for the poor,
To those who have nothing and know it.

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

Not just the message of Jesus which is good news
Jesus himself is good news
- all that our hearts long for

What is the good news

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

God of heaven and earth chooses to be one of us, with us
Poor family in a dump of a town

Why?
For our sake
through his poverty might become rich.