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    Returning God’s Love

    December 27, 2021 / 0 Comments

    The story of the Christ Child begins with Christmas, with the wonder of God giving His only Son to come as a baby and live among us. There is an important lesson for us to remember that goes beyond Christmas. The Gospel message isn’t just for salvation it is for living our everyday lives by the power of God’s Spirit which we receive at salvation. Christ in us!

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    Suzi Ciliberti

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    Shepherd Like a Girl

    December 22, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Does your nativity set have any female shepherds? Mine doesn’t. And it’s amazing how much I have picked up unconsciously from art….  I didn’t realize that—without anything being said outright—I had internalized the idea that “shepherd” was a “guy” job. So, if I saw a Christmas pageant with girls dressed in bathrobes holding crooks, I told myself the real nativity story lacked girl roles so the directors were taking creative license. But now I know those girls in bathrobes more closely represented reality than did my misinformed imaginations. My understanding about shepherds shifted radically when I traveled with my husband and daughter to Kenya’s Rift Valley. My husband is a…

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    Sandra Glahn

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  • Engage

    Their Son Was a King

    December 14, 2020 / 1 Comment

    We became first-time parents in a government building in a foreign land. There was no pomp and circumstance. No parade. No party. No family. No fanfare. And although our adoption agency properly prepared us for such a low-level event, that first-day was not the norm for most first-time parents. Joseph and Mary became first-time parents in a cave[1] in a city faraway from their home of Nazareth. There was no pomp and circumstance. No parade. No party (except with shepherds).[2] No family.[3] No fanfare. And although angels properly prepared them for the significance of this birth, their first-day was not the norm for first-century parents, especially parents of royalty. You…

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    Karla Zazueta

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    Advanced Christmas Story Trivia: How well do you really know the story?

    December 18, 2018 / Comments Off on Advanced Christmas Story Trivia: How well do you really know the story?

    Angels, shepherds, wisemen, Jesus lying in a manger–we know the story so well. But it's been sweetened up, romanticized, censored, stripped of its violence and desperation through the years. It's good to go back to the original sources and renew our appreciation of the extreme drama of the story. Here are 9 questions to challenge you and your children to worship a God who would orchestrate such an amazing story to draw us back to himself. (You might enjoy using one each night as a conversation starter at dinner. You can even include these questions in a larger game of Advanced Christmas Trivia to share at Christmas gatherings with additional…

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  • Engage

    Have Yourself a Mary Little Christmas

    December 20, 2016 / 0 Comments

    As a Protestant, I’m part of a tradition that tends to looks askance at the Virgin Mary. Our concern that her prominence obscures the person and work of Jesus Christ has led us to go the opposite extreme and gloss over her story. In the opinion of my colleague, Dr. Tim Ralston, others “avoid her simply because she’s a woman and just not as exciting as the warriors, prophets, and apostles who regularly populate Bible stories with larger-than-life exploits and miraculous happenings." When we do talk about the Virgin Mary, we tend to focus on the “scandal” of people perceiving Jesus’s illegitimacy, though there is nothing in the text to…

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    Keeping Christ in Christmas!

    December 11, 2015 / Comments Off on Keeping Christ in Christmas!

      Twice a year it is a given that in most every church two Bible stories will be taught. In December we all teach the birth of Christ and then a few months later His death and resurrection. It becomes a challenge for teachers and pastors to keep the story alive and the classes interesting.  From crafts to songs, from games to puzzles we work hard to keep our children happy and interested. Our text book and material never change but the content of our messages do. We teach the stories when they are young and progress each year toward doctrines and theology to give birth and shape to core…

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