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As I looked down into the manger of the nativity scene, the Holy Spirit said to me: "There are big lessons in small pictures." I began to think about what a manger was used for. It was an eating place that held food for the animals — donkeys, cows, and maybe even sheep. This seemed to be so small and insignificant, but in Luke, chapter two, God thought it important enough to point it out three times. He also pointed out that the baby Jesus was laid in it. "Father, I asked, "what is the impor...

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A pope whose touch is coveted by so many pope francis is known as a liberal reformer, a pope for the people but these incidents where hes pulled away have attracted criticism from conservatives who say that he turns up his nose at traditional expressions of devotion from the public peter? >> matt bradley, thank you. to a bizarre murder case in texas. a promising young football star accused of brutally killing his own sister the confession police say captured on video. here is nbcs catie beck. ...

Their caliphate destroyed, their terrorist leader dead. hes no mr. nice guy, but sometimes it takes a donald trump to change washington. >> yeah, i mean, hes a jerk, but hes your jerk, is sort of the message. and i think donald trump, while the conventional wisdom is to talk about the economy, i think trump, probably even more than someone on the staff realizes or understands, that his appeal, the trump phenomenon goes beyond gdp numbers. the reason why no republican dars to cross him in the hou...

Them together, they would fill a ship." >> and yet scripture says that just one man, jesus, was able to carry it on his shoulders. >> there were a lot of people who were speaking out about the devotion of relics as something which is absurd and disgusting, and they really thought that people had lost touch with the true faith. >> the true cross had the power to divide christianity, and the question remained: could the legend be real? high in the cantabrian mountains of northern spain lies the mo...

Something that actually becomes something tangible that people want to think about as part of their devotion. >> as fragments spread around the world, they will also help turn christianity from an underground cult into a global religion. >> pieces of the true cross were almost used like trading cards. this is a way to gain favor with a bishop here or an aristocrat or prince over there. >> if you shared the true cross with someone, youre sharing power with them because the true cross is a source ...

Image of the man of the shroud pops out at him, and its like staring at the face of jesus. it suddenly turns the shroud from an object of religious devotion to an icon of scientific obsession. if you prove that the shroud of turin is real, youre proving that jesus christ existed. >> in 1978, former u.s. air force physicist john jackson from the shroud of turin research project was given unprecedented access to study the relic. >> you see the image of -- of a human man. we can see for example the...

>> calvin laughs and says, you know, if you took all of the pieces of the true cross and put them together, they would fill a ship. >> and yet scripture says that just one man, jesus, was able to carry it on his shoulders. >> there were a lot of people who were speaking out about the devotion of relics as something which is absurd and disgusting, and they really thought that people had lost touch with the true faith. >> the true cross had the power to divide christianity. and the question remain...

>> the body is taken to josephs tomb and prepared for burial. >> when nicodemus is willing to get involved within the burial, hes supplying really, very expensive products to be used in the process of embalming the body. >> first century jewish law said that to touch a dead body would make you unclean, and so for joseph and nicodemus to actually go through the process of preparing jesus for burial, there had to have been tremendous love and devotion just to care for him. >> a rock is rolled acro...

Secondo pia took the worlds first photograph of the shroud. >> all of a sudden, a negative image of the man of the shroud pops out at him, and its like staring at the face of jesus. it suddenly turns the shroud from an object of religious devotion to an icon of scientific obsession. if you prove that the shroud of turin is real, youre proving that jesus christ existed. >> in 1978, former u.s. air force physicist john jackson from the shroud of turin research project was given unprecedented acces...