This year, Dec. 6-Dec. 14 is Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Chanukah was one of my favorite times growing up. Playing dreidel games! Eating potato latkes! Eight nights of presents! Lighting the Chanukah candles! As the eldest child in my family, I lit the menorah candles. First, we…
Read more“How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is give.” There is no question that He came, this wondrous gift. Reliable witnesses tell us Jesus lived on this earth over two thousand years ago. For years He quietly worked at the trade his earthly father taught him. At the age…
Read moreTherefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. I Cor. 15:58 (NIV) Life. So much of it, is just routine,…
Read moreAs I move down my holiday list, and checking it twice, I double check all of the names: David, Jeremy, Jordan, Anna. And then there is: Caleb, Sophia and Bell. Don’t forget the new babies: Grayson and Sadie. I ever so carefully shop for each name on my list, making sure not…
Read more“And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them,…
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