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Why Did the Trucker Dance by the Side of the Highway? What Did Lenny Thomas See?
Lenny Thomas had seen it all. He’d been a big-rig trucker for thirty-five years and nothing surprised him anymore. He’d crossed the country more times than he could remember and run across every character you could imagine and some you couldn’t. As he pulled up behind the break down on I-95 just outside of Bethlehem, …[ read more ]
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The Church of the Clanging Cymbal (or why Christians should shut up for Christmas)
Noisemakers are in the news this holiday season. We live in an age when everyone wants to make some noise. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” seems to have become our national motto and so we have become a nation of squeakers, ready to protest, voice our concerns, write our letters, assert our beliefs, call …[ read more ]
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Having A Charlie Brown Christmas? Stop Striving for Perfection! It’s Untraditional.
Have you been watching holiday movies? Each flick has a crazy cast of characters aiming for a perfect Christmas but facing mounting conflict in that pursuit. Through a series of zany escapades and a healthy dose of miracles provided by the nebulous “spirit of Christmas” they all wind up with the perfect Christmas moment where everything …[ read more ]
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When You Feel Shut Out of Christmas
Christmas brings many people together but for others, it highlights feelings of isolation, depression and sadness. It is for these people that I retell Carly’s story. The Snow Globe – Carly’s Christmas Story “Like a snow globe? How’s that?” The church counselor shifted forward in her chair as I searched for words. “You know those …[ read more ]
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Christmas Dreaming Amidst Broken Dreams
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.” That’s how the song goes. We all have dreams for our lives – dreams of not only our holidays, but of what every day of our future will look like. I’ll bet that Joseph had dreams. He had reached adulthood, learned a trade, was betrothed to a young woman …[ read more ]