Our family decided to take an evening drive on Christmas Eve in order to look at houses displayed in holiday lights. We dressed our daughter in her footed snowman pajamas, hat, and coat, while we threw on hooded sweatshirts, and into the car we went, until . . . Continue reading Vomit, the New Christmas Miracle
Category Archives: Christmas
All I Want for “Christmas” is Sermon Material
I have begun working on my preaching calendar for 2013, and find myself thankful for the instruction I received at Wesley Seminary regarding the Church Calendar/Seasons. While I am not binding myself to the Lectionary, I hope to avoid ever feeling like I am running out of material.
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Call to Worship: Christmas Day
I have heard of families who do not place the baby Jesus in their nativity until Christmas day. I like that tradition. (Unfortunately we cannot do this because in our nativity set Mary and the baby Jesus are one piece.) So many things are anticipated before Christmas: vacation time, holiday meals, Santa Claus, presents (giving and receiving), the Christmas tree, lights, time with family and friends, parties, Christmas cards in the mail, Christmas stockings, snow, caroling, candlelight Christmas Eve services, Christmas musicals or plays, “The Nutcracker”, books (The Night Before Christmas, A Christmas Carol, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas), special Christmas television and movies (Charlie Brown, Rudolf, Frosty, “Miracle on 34th Street,” “A Christmas Story,” and Santa riding a Norelco razor), Continue reading Call to Worship: Christmas Day
Christmas Letter: Busy and Blessed
As usual, the enemy this year was busyness. Being busy is not necessarily a bad thing. We are thankful to be busy at our jobs, than be out of work. We are thankful to be busy doing home repairs and improvements, than to be homeless. The big cost this year was a new water line. Just so you know, regular home owner’s insurance does not cover that. We also are busy with school, but can now see the finish line, May 2012, which of course means looking to new goals, after a bit of celebration.
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| Sophia’s first cake |
Christmas Past
I took the last of my family, that was visiting for the holidays, to the airport at 5 am this morning. The house is fairly quiet, except for the washing machine and dryer, which will be cleaning and drying sheets and towels all day. My wife and I have our offices and bedroom back, and over the next week, or so, I will be taking down and packing up all the Christmas decorations. I am back to work, but fortunately my seminary semester has not yet begun, as I am fighting off the shared cold of my sisters-in-law, I think it will be at least a week before we are fully back to “normal” around the house.
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| We added three more stockings before Christmas arrived. |