Posts tagged with ‘christmas’

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Gifts

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Christmas day has passed. The presents are opened and everyone in my family has some type of new clothing to wear. I have worked hard at maintaining our Christmas family traditions over the years. Of course they change some, as the family’s needs change.   One that I particularly enjoy, is finding (or making!) the time […]

A Night to Remember

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Some years ago, the church where I was serving sponsored a production of the famous opera by Gian Carlo Menotti, “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” We were fortunate to have a Minister of Music who knew the music for the whole opera, and who had played it a few times with an opera group. This […]

December 2016 Message

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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go to Bethlehem at Christmas? In 1865, a clergyman named Phillips Brooks, did just that when he traveled to the Holy Land. During Christmas week, he and his friends took a horse ride into Bethlehem. He wrote about it in a letter home: “It was only about two hours when […]