Dealing with Grief
Walking through a time of loss? Share with us so we can walk with you. [display_podcast] Read More >
Can We Skip Christmas?
The smell of freshly baked gingerbread came from the kitchen and the lights on the tree glowed as I sat for a few minutes and enjoyed the moment. But it hasn’t always been this way. There was a time when I simply did not want to have Christmas at all. Just dragging the tree out and [...] Read More >
Christmas Digest – Share the Joy of Christmas
This Christmas share the message of God’s gift to the world with the warm, inspiring stories found in a small magazine called the Christmas Digest. Often humorous, always touching, this collection of true anecdotes relays the reason for the season in a fresh, uplifting manner. Complete with the Christmas Story from Luke’s gospel, the magazine also explains [...] Read More >
Christmas Gift Giving Alternatives
Have you ever stopped while pounding the pavement or walking the malls during the holiday season and asked yourself what is the point of this annual gift giving frenzy? Sure, it’s better to give than receive, and Christmas presents are an excellent way to share the love that God displayed to us so perfectly through the [...] Read More >
Marvelous Love
On a cold Christmas Eve in 1952, when Korea was in the throes of civil war, one young woman struggled along a village street, obviously soon to deliver a child. She pleaded with passersby, “Help me! Please. My baby.” No one paid any attention to her. A middle-aged couple walked by. The wife pushed away the young [...] Read More >
Digging Deep for Christmas Presents
Wouldn’t you love to wake up on Christmas morning, find a huge, beautifully wrapped present with your name on it under the tree and open it up to discover that the brightly colored package contained none other than a bottle of clean, cool, fresh water? Wait a second… If that doesn’t sound like your Christmas fantasy come [...] Read More >
Home for Christmas
In 1962 I was preaching in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was single and it was Christmas time. I was heading home to Michigan to enjoy the holidays with my family. It was an extremely cold day and it was snowing. The wind was howling out of the north, blowing thick clouds of fine flakes across the road [...] Read More >
The Difference
When I think of Christmas, I often think of something that happened during my school-teaching days. The school I taught in was very old. It had fourteen-foot ceilings and huge windows. The kids who attended this ghetto school were tough, and they were extremely poor. Maybe that’s how they got to be so tough. Determined to [...] Read More >
Christmas Cream Cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups creamo 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons baking powder 1 1/2 cups shortening (creamed) i.e Crisco vegetable shortening 2 cups sugar 8 cups flour Directions: Cream shortening. Add sugar and mix until fluffy. Add creamo and milk, baking powder and 7cups of flour (use 1 cup for rolling out dough). Mix until well blended. Roll out on floured surface so dough [...] Read More >
Keeping Christmas
In a world that seems not only to be changing, but even to be dissolving, there are some tens of millions of us who want Christmas to be the same….with the same old greeting “Merry Christmas” and no other. We long for the abiding love among men of good will which the season brings…believing in this [...] Read More >
Connecting Through Technology
Do you use technology to stay in touch with family and friends?
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