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A Visit From The Christ Child (a poem)

By on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 | No Comments

In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem, originally called “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”   In many American homes is it read on Christmas Eve.   It begins ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ and redefined the image of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, who had never before been associated with a sleigh or reindeers! […]

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Indifference is Fatal

By on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | No Comments

“Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, […]

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Light a Candle – Video Sermon

By on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Do you remember the “Hee-Haw” variety show? One of my favorite scenes each week was when a couple of fellows in a field started to sing: “Gloom, despair, and agony on me – Deep dark depression, excessive misery. “If it weren’t for bad luck – “I’d have no luck at all, “Gloom, depair, and agony […]

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Hope and Faith – two quotes from William Sloane Coffin

By on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Two quotes from William Sloane Coffin, author of Credo: “Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any […]

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Invitation to Mission, by Joseph Tkach

By on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 | No Comments

The subject of mission and outreach has sometimes been a source of passionate disagreement among Christian believers. Some Christians believe that they  should focus all mission efforts locally. Others believe mission should have more of an international focus.  Despite the disagreement, however, most would agree that mission is all about joining Jesus in his work […]

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Some Guy Jumped Me At The Mall

By on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | 3 Comments

A few weeks back, as the Christmas shopping season began, I was jumped by a guy at the mall.  The guy did not have a knife or a gun.  His weapons were a collection of Gospel tracts.  His desire was to make sure I was “SAVED.” “If you were to die tonight, do you know whether or […]

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(Media) Messy Nativity Sheep Trail in Liverpool

By on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Fresh Expressions is a movement from England that has “crossed the pond” and they say, taking up residence in the United States in an effort being spearheaded by many YOUNG Virginia Baptist.  One of them is my good friend Chris Backert, who until recently was pastor of “Imago Dei Richmond” (one of the three congregations […]

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Christmas Kindness

By on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Joseph Tkach is a fine theologian and leader, whose writings I greatly enjoy.  Here is a recent note that I greatly appreciated and am happy to share with my blog readers. ————— Now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are behind us, our national attention has turned toward Christmas. Everywhere we look, Christmas is there, dominating television, […]

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How To Be A Success

By on Thursday, December 1st, 2011 | No Comments

From Bill Coffin: Love, and you are a success whether or not the world thinks so. The highest purpose of Christianity = which is primarily a way of life, not a system of belief – is to love one another. And the firstfruit of love is joy, the joy that represents meaning and fulfillment.

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