1354) Christmas Peace
--------------------- Luke 2:13-14 -- And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth…
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1354) Christmas Peace
1351) Feeling Sorry for the Shepherds
Dutch painter Govaert Flinck (1615-1650); Angels Announcing Christ’s birth to the Shepherds (1639) ----------------------- I have often wondered about the shepherds in the Christmas story. Luke 2:20 says…
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1351) Feeling Sorry for the Shepherds
1349) Christmas Insights
When we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with…
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1349) Christmas Insights
1348) One Thing Never Changes
Every year brings changes into our lives, but then at the end of the year, on Christmas we are brought back to the old story that never changes:…
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1348) One Thing Never Changes
1339) Jungle Christmas Carolers
By Joseph Degi, Copperas Cove, Texas, in Guideposts magazine, December 1988. None of us sailors in the 119th Construction Battalion were in the mood for Christmas. No wonder!…
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1339) Jungle Christmas Carolers
1331) “Bah! Humbug!”
Ebeneezer Scrooge and his nephew Fred (1938 movie A Christmas Carol) -------------------------------- From “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (1812-1870): “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried…
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1331) “Bah! Humbug!”
990) Joseph (part two of two)
Father and Son, 2002, Corbet Gauthier (prints available at www.artbarbarians.com) ------------------------ (...continued) It was at that point that the angel appeared to Joseph and said, “Do not be…
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990) Joseph (part two of two)
989) Joseph (part one of two)
Joseph's Dream in the Stable, 1645, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) ----------------------------- There are four Gospels in the New Testament, four accounts of the life of Jesus Christ by…
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989) Joseph (part one of two)
987) Where is Bethlehem?
From The Word for Every Day, by Alvin Rogness, Augsburg Publishing House, 1981, page 365. Bethlehem can be in our hearts. Jesus came to this little village. He…
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987) Where is Bethlehem?
982) Too Ordinary? (2/2)
(...continued) We see in the Bible that God chooses to do his most extra-ordinary work in very ordinary ways... There are a couple things to…
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982) Too Ordinary? (2/2)