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DON’T Make Your Children’s Dreams Come True for Christmas
If you believe all the commercials and holiday specials, Christmas is about making dreams come true. Funny, no one told Jesus. He didn’t come to work for Walt Disney; He came to fulfill His Father’s will. God doesn’t offer us a Jiminy Cricket faith. It isn’t dreamy to know Him, it’s transformative. Ask Mary. It …[ read more ]
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Have You Ever Felt Alone in a Crowd?
Have you ever felt alone in a crowd? Have you ever sat in a room full of people and felt saturated with loneliness? When my children were young and encountered the occasional week-end when no friends were available for plans, they would despair and complain that they hated time alone. My exhortation was always the …[ read more ]
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Lenny Thomas Had Seen It All
Lenny Thomas had seen it all. He’d been a big-rig trucker for twenty-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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Christmas Dreaming
“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 ]
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Making A List and Checking It Twice
Just a list of names. I’ve been reading the Bible since I was six but for many years, when I came to a long genealogy like the one that opens Matthew’s gospel, I would pass it by so I could get to the stories. Maybe because I’m older and closer to being just a name …[ read more ]