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The Greatest Gift

12/25/2022

 
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​Christmas is here! After a season filled with festivity, lights, celebration, and joy, Christmas morning has finally dawned. For most, it is a time of merriment and good will as they gather around a lighted tree, exchanging gifts and sharing good food. However, this isn’t all that Christmas is about. It’s a time to remember and celebrate the greatest gift of all—Jesus!

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Merry Christmas!

12/25/2021

 
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Sitting in the pre-dawn stillness of Christmas morning is both peaceful and relaxing. It gives time to pause and reflect on the true reason and meaning of Christmas. Time to ponder and savor the truths that shine brightest at Christmas.

Jesus came to earth as a helpless baby so that we might intimately know and receive a Savior. Divinity joined humanity. Creator became like His creation. 

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Light Pierces the Darkness

12/23/2021

 
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Christmas has become such a festive holiday. Lights, parties, cheery decorations, and upbeat music are all part of the American Christmas tradition. It is a season to be merry, a time to rejoice, and a month where good well, gift giving, and happiness seems to abound.
 
But what if you’re not feeling the Christmas spirit this year? What if your season is tinged by darkness? What if your celebration is overshadowed by grief or loss? What if you feel alone this season and the merriment and happiness of this time can’t seem to touch your soul?

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After Christmas

12/29/2020

 
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​Christmas is over.  The presents have been opened.  The wrapping paper cleaned up and the gifts put away.  The feast has been consumed and most of the goodies have disappeared.  While Christmas is an amazing, awe-filled celebration and time of memory making and remembering, the post-Christmas season can be a bit of a letdown.  After all the planning, anticipation, and eager expectation, post-Christmas can feel mundane, anti-climactic, and disappointing.  While New Year’s is right around the corner, it does not carry the same joy, celebration, excitement, and magical moments that Christmas does.  

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Merry Christmas

12/25/2020

 
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​The long awaited day is here.  Christmas morning.  A special time of celebration, reflection, and love.  Gifts are exchanged and joy shared.  Family is appreciated and celebrated, and memories are made.  However, in the midst of the wrapping paper, delicious food, fun games, and family jokes, let’s not forget whose birthday we’re celebrating.  

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Worshipers

12/22/2020

 
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The world is full of a diverse array of people.  We come from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, have different styles and accents, use different lingo, and possess unique behavioral quirks.  I am reminded by the diversity among humanity every time I stand in line at the grocery store or sit in an airport terminal.  While we form groups based on preferences and similarities and judge each other based on our differences, fundamentally we are all the same.  We are driven by the same desires and share the same needs, which is why we bump into different people at the grocery store in an airport security line.  And most importantly, we were all created in the image of God.

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Places

12/19/2020

 
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​Christmas is less than a week away!  The time is flying by!  As we continue on our Road to Christmas series with the list of unlikelys, today’s topic is probably the most unlikely of all.  Unlikely places.  The Christmas story is full of unusual details; however, considering it is the account of the arrival of the King of kings, some of the most unexpected parts are the places that significant events took place.

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Journeys

12/15/2020

 
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​Traveling is a large part of modern Christmas celebrations.  Families gather from far and wide to celebrate the season with loved ones.  Adult sons and daughters journey with their families back to their childhood home and join the masses on their way to various locations for Christmas.  In many ways, this bustle of travel activity harkens back to the very first Christmas, a Christmas marked by lots of traveling.

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Decrees

12/12/2020

 
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​We love the manger scene and rosy pictures of Mary riding a donkey on the way to Bethlehem.  It seems so idyllic and serene.  But have you ever considered how stressful and chaotic that trip might have been for Joseph and Mary?  They, along with the rest of the world, were on the move because of some unexpected government orders.  Traveling to Bethlehem was not part of their five year plan, and especially not while Mary was expecting the Christ Child.  However, God had different plans and used an unlikely government order to accomplish it.

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Visitors

12/8/2020

 
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Christmas is a rather magical time of year.  The lights and festive décor truly add to the holiday spirit.  Angels grace Christmas trees and stars are liberally scattered throughout.  However, these traditional elements of our celebrations point to an even more magical time.  A time in history when the chasm between heaven and earth became smaller and angels commonly appeared to men.   

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The Road to Christmas:  Unlikely Characters

12/5/2020

 
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It truly is the most wonderful time of the year!  Not because the decorations are beautiful, the music is cheerful, or the season is nostalgic, but because it’s a season during which we intentionally place Jesus at the forefront and focus upon Him.  While the decorations and holiday cheer are fine and good, they should never be the focus.  As Christians, we know the true meaning of Christmas and, therefore, ought to celebrate and focus our minds and hearts accordingly.

For this reason, I’ll be taking time this month to reflect and highlight different parts of the Christmas story.  Over the past five years, I’ve looked at Christmas through the eyes of different members of the story.  Mary’s wide-eyed wonder, Joseph’s steadfast gaze, Elizabeth’s joy, the shepherd’s fear, Bethlehem’s busyness, Simon’s amazement, and the magi’s worship.  Each character has a unique perspective from which we gain greater insight into the miracle of Christmas.

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A Different Advent

12/1/2020

 
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​Twenty-twenty has been a year of different.  At first, so many had great expectations for this year and new decade.  Twenty-twenty vision was the slogan many used to predict what this year would bring.  While it may seem like this expectation never came about due to COVID-19, as we near the end of the year, I would have to argue the converse. 

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Merry Christmas!

12/25/2018

 
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​I know it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged.  This is the first Advent season in three years that I haven’t written something.  Sorry for the silence!  This Christmas season has gone by in a blur of activity and festivity.  I hope you have all been blessed by the season.
 
But as we approach today—Christmas morning—there is a certain level of awe and wonder that ought to fill our hearts as we contemplate and ponder the birth of Christ.  Not only were the events surrounding His birth amazing and incredible, but the very fact that He came fills my heart with worship.  

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The Mute Begins to Speak

12/28/2017

 
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​This Christmas season we’ve focused on the stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth.  Christmas is now over; however, before we move on, I’d like to take one last look at Zechariah.

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Christ is Born!

12/25/2017

 
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​The longed for, long awaited day has arrived.  Merry Christmas, everyone!  It’s Christmas Day!  The presents have probably already been opened and sounds of joy, squeals if there are children involved, and thanks have filled the home.  But now as the tissue paper settles and the new gifts get neatly arranged, it’s time to take a moment and remember why we celebrate Christmas.  

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