Tag: christmas

  • as to a lamp shining in a dark place

    Perhaps you look at Biblical prophesy as something of darkness from the past. Maybe in this 21st century we just don’t believe the lives and words of men like Jeremiah or Isaiah could shed any light on the struggles of our life. If God has spoken through certain men of old, why send Jesus to…

    2 Peter 1:19
  • Days of Despair

     In Christ we have a Light of hope in a season of our dark despair. Job 30: 16 “And now my soul is poured out within me;     days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17 The night racks my bones,     and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. Have you ever had a bad time in life like…

    Despair or hope?
  • Renaming of the Holiday

    A major corporate advertiser brazenly changed Thanksgiving this year to ‘Thanks-getting.’ It is not an inaccurate description of our 21st c. consumer attitude about the purpose of the holidays. Add to that: Black Friday, which hemorrhaged forward into the traditional dinner hour of Thanksgiving Day; Small Business Saturday, a local attempt to hold onto business closer…