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By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Holidays gatherings, potluck dinners, food gifts and crowded calendars plead for us to find simple solutions to the year’s most popular feasting season. I have scoured and searched for some ways we are simplifying the food department this year. Share your secrets too! Food Gifts and Holiday Dishes Look for [...]
Our family loves to celebrate Christmas — through sights, sounds, smells, songs and JOY. We focus on Jesus Christ’s coming to earth — not only His birth, but also His life, His sacrificial death on the Cross, His resurrection life, and His very real presence in our lives today. At Christmastime, we remember how God [...]
By Contributing Writer, Marcia Wilwerding The Waffling Begins I suppose this post is as much to do with where our family is now in regard to what to do about Christmas as it is about telling you what to do if your family is still waffling on the subject. While some people have never once [...]
Every Christmas season I look forward to reading the account of the birth of Christ in Luke together as a family on Christmas morning. I’m amazed at Mary’s faith. What must have gone through her mind when Gabriel approached her? How did she process the news that she and Joseph were to raise the Son of God? What depths of sorrow did she endure while watching her Son die a horrific death on a cross? There are many lessons we can learn from her life, but I want to share just ten today.
By Contributing Writer, Yvonne Harink One of the most profound of all the Christmas Songs is Issac Watts triumphant carol: Joy to the World, the LORD has come, Let earth receive her KING! At Christmas we not only celebrate the little babe in the manger; we also celebrate the mighty warrior who conquered evil and [...]
By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore Maybe some of you have played out this same scenario in your own living room on Christmas morning: The family gathers around an enormous stack of gifts. Little Billy opens up two gifts and his eyes are as big as saucers. “WOW!! Thank you!! Is that really for me??!!” He’s [...]
By Contributing Writer, Terry Covey Well, we’ve entered into this holiday season full swing! Isn’t it odd that the word ‘holiday’ is something we Christians are almost afraid to say? But it’s root is ‘holy day’! A day set aside to remember our God. Our family enjoyed the beauty of Thanksgiving with 20 family members around our table, [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler It was a nice Christmas gathering, until…..a young mom shared that her family celebrates Christmas with Santa. The opinions started flying. Some showed concern and offered solutions. Others were just interested in presenting how evil Santa is. Later, an older woman that had been in attendance called me. She was [...]
By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Today was a day of preparation for me. Illustrated Christmas song books were stacked in a basket by the fire place. Manger scenes were set out for the little ones, and candles have been placed liberally throughout the family room. Favorite Christmas books were brought out of storage and wrapped individually [...]
If you are like me, you might be feeling heavy-hearted about the future of our nation. The people of the United States are not the same kind of people they used to be. Socialized, government education, along with propaganda through the media and entertainment, have successfully brainwashed millions in the past two generations. We reached [...]
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