Christmas TV Schedule, Countdown and Quick Thought – Friday, December 23, 2022

2 Days Until Christmas!

Song: “O Holy Night,” by Johnny Mathis
Christmas Album: “Home for Christmas,” by Amy Grant; “A Christmas Album,” by Amy Grant; and “A Christmas to Remember,” by Amy Grant
Christmas DVD: “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947)
Netflix Movie: “The Christmas Chronicles”
Amazon Prime Movie: “A Christmas Snow”
Disney+ Movie: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
Hulu Movie: “Girlfriends of Christmas Past”
Hallmark Movie: “Pictures of Hollis Woods”
On TV:
New programming in bold
• “A Tennessee Kind of Christmas,” 7 a.m., CMT
• “Kung Fu Panda Holiday,” 7 a.m., Disney
• “Home Alone,” 7:30 a.m., Freeform
• “Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas,” 8 a.m., Disney
• “The First Noelle,” 8 a.m., BET
• “Christmas Under Wraps,” 8 a.m., Hallmark
• “Love Actually,” 9 a.m., AMC
• “A Wesley Christmas,” 10 a.m., BET
• “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” 10 a.m., Freeform
• “You, Me & the Christmas Trees,” 10 a.m., Hallmark
• “Miracle on 34th Street (1947),” 11:15 a.m., AMC
• “The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas,” noon, PBS
• “A Christmas Detour,” noon, Hallmark
• “The Christmas Clapback,” 12:05 p.m., BET
• “Miracle on 34th Street (1994),” 12:40 p.m., Freeform
• “White Christmas,” 1:30 p.m., AMC
• “Rolling Into Christmas,” 2 p.m., BET
• “An Unexpected Christmas,” 2 p.m., Hallmark
• “Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding,” 2 p.m., Lifetime
• “Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas,” 3 p.m., PBS
• Independence Bowl: Louisiana vs. Houston, 3 p.m., ESPN
• “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” 3:20 p.m., Freeform
• “The Sound of Christmas,” 4 p.m., BET
• “The Sweetest Christmas,” 4 p.m., Hallmark
• “Merry Liddle Christmas Baby,” 4 p.m., Lifetime
• “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” 4:15 p.m., AMC
• “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” 5 p.m., Freeform
• “A Miracle Before Christmas,” 6 p.m., BET
• “#Xmas,” 6 p.m., Hallmark
• “Merry Swissmas,” 6 p.m., Lifetime
• Gasparilla Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Missouri, 6:30 p.m., ESPN
• “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” 6:45 p.m., AMC
• “Home Alone,” 7 p.m., Freeform
• “The 24th Annual Home For the Holidays at the Grove,” 8 p.m., CBS
• “Mickey Saves Christmas,” 8 p.m., ABC
• “The Polar Express,” 8 p.m., AMC
• “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” 8 p.m., NBC
• “The Chosen: The Messengers,” 8 p.m., CW
• “Crown for Christmas,” 8 p.m., Hallmark
• “A New Orleans Noel,” 8 p.m., Lifetime
• “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All,” 8 p.m., MTV
• “Our OWN Celebration (Christmas),” 8 p.m., OWN
• “Remember the Night,” 8 p.m., TCM
• “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure,” 8:30 p.m., ABC
• “5 More Sleeps ‘Til Christmas,” 8:30 p.m., NBC
• “Christmas Takes Flight,” 9 p.m., CBS
• “Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic 2022,” 9 p.m., CW
• “Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen,” 9 p.m., CNN
• “Christmas Party Crashers,” 9 p.m., BET
• “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” 9:30 p.m., Freeform
• “Elf,” 10 p.m., AMC
• “Holiday Heritage,” 10 p.m., Hallmark
• “Kirk Franklin’s the Night Before Christmas,” 10:03 p.m., Lifetime
Recipe: Perfect Cranberry Sauce

Quick Thought for Christmas

Read

Luke 2:8-17

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.
Luke 2:15-16

Reflect

Have you ever gotten some very good advice to do something, but held up from doing it because you just weren’t ready. I can’t count the times that I should have done something, only to find out later that I missed the chance; had I acted, I would have benefitted in a significant way.

Imagine if you had $1,000 to invest on August 19, 2004, the day that Google released its initial public offering. A friend told you that it was a can’t miss investment, but instead of investing, you held on to that money because it just seemed too risky. That $1,000 would have gotten you about 12 shares of stock. But instead, you buried it under a rock. Today, your $1,000 would be worth about $1,470, adjusted for inflation. But if you’d bought just 12 shares of Google back then, your stock value today would be roughly $34,000. If only you’d moved on that unheeded stock tip.

Waiting can be costly if the time to move is right now.

On that first Christmas Eve, shepherds standing in their field were greeted by an angelic host and were told, “There’s something wonderful going on in Bethlehem that you should see!” They had a choice – they could continue to stand there in the field, watching the sheep and getting cold, or they could go and see if the wonderful thing was truly there. Few could have blamed them if they hadn’t gone. After all, it was an outlandish claim made by what could have been attributed to a hallucination.

But these shepherds saw something else. They believed what they had seen, and they decided immediately: “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” They didn’t wait, and because of their immediate action, they were eyewitnesses to the most historic birth in the history of the world.

We won’t often be given such amazing spiritual opportunities. But God does frequently call each of us to some sort of action. And each time He does, we have the option to get up and move, or sit and wait it out. In these last two days leading up to Christmas, keep a keen eye and ear out for what God is calling you to do. It may be something as simple as putting a quarter or a dollar in a Salvation Army kettle. Or it may be more. But when He puts something on your heart, don’t wait. Because you may just miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime.