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A COVID Christmas – Shall we take Jesus out of the box?
Happy Holidays NO, I’m not taking a trip to relatives or friends and setting Scripture aside for a time. (And it has nothing to do with #socialdistancing.) In my previous holiday post, COVID – The Sĭn’ch WHO Stole Thanksgiving, I suggested that we make too much of certain holidays. Although the American tradition of Thanksgiving…
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Thanksgiving: We’re a little late and Christmas a little early
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! – 1 Corinthians 15:57 What’s wrong with this picture? Or this one? We may chuckle at these common images of two typically American holidays, but much more is at stake here than changing traditions. Looking for thanks. Watch for the coming ‘blitzchris’…
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Christ’s Corporate Community – a Christmas Question
Isaiah 7 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter…
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Christmas: past, present, future
BAH! humbug! You know the story; but the man is converted in the end by what has been, what is, and what will be. What about you? Do you have a Christmas story to warm our hearts? Please share it, by way of a COMMENT. Your witness is important to me and to others. Here…
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‘You’re NOT MY Father!’ – the prodigal C.E. Evangelical
‘You’re not my father,’ the young woman yelled at the top of her voice as her mother tried to take control of the situation. (The prodigal teen might just as well been a son rejecting the authority of his father.) Our Family Prodigal Most Christians are no doubt familiar with the scenario of Jesus’ parable…
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Thanks-taking feasts of C.E. humankind
A BIG meal of little thanks in a long season of thanklessness. Giving Thanks to the LORD O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Chronicles 16: KJV – v.34 16:34 הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה We know the concept well — yāḏâ Yᵊhōvâ, from the Hebrew. This instance…
