Boxing day 2012. The gifts have been opened, and are now being enjoyed. I hope you got something useful. Do you ever think about the gifts that remain in your memory from when you were young? I remember one year my parents gave me a hockey stick. I even remember that the price was still on it – one dollar and ten cents. I had never owned a new stick, always hand me downs. I enjoyed that hockey stick on the open air rinks where we played. I thought, as a young boy, it was the best gift I had ever received – but I was wrong, because at the tender age of 17, I was given the greatest gift of all. Not from my wonderful parents or any other human, but from God. It was the free gift of eternal life. Someone showed me that being a Christian was not going to church or being baptized, but it was entering into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Then I learned that though “the wages of sin is death, the gift of God eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.” And that gift is available to every single person, including you. Pastor Alex Rockwell