The Greatest Gift | December 24, 2025

If I were to ask you, what is the greatest gift you’ve ever received, what would you say? Usually, when I ask a group of students this question I hear about the bike they got for Christmas, or a special doll that looks just like them, or the video game they’d had their eyes on for months. But one year, at vacation bible school, I asked a group of elementary school students “what is the greatest gift you’ve ever received?” and one little boy with confidence shot his hand up in the air to say “my life.”