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Walking in Newness of Life

Twelve days before Christmas, the mail brought a stack of season’s greetings and a divorce summons. As I gathered the envelopes, I had no idea that a single moment was about to slash decades of family memories and traditions: searching for a fresh, fragrant tree; snuggling by the fire as carols played; reminiscing over snapshots of a growing child. Now,... >Full Story

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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...... >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 greatest gift of all... >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 mother and sneered, “Where’s...... >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 – it was like... >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 make it special Christmas...... >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...... >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 ancient miracle of Christmas...... >Read More


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