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Category Archives: Christmas

the disADVENTage of being good.

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The birth story of Jesus has so many elements that are hard to believe.  The events that unfold are difficult …

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The Great Part about the Good Part.

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Did the angels that appeared to the shepherds exaggerate when they said it was good news of great joy for …

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adVENTING about the Holidays

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This is the time of year many of us wander the malls for hours searching for the perfect gift for …

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Search the sky for stars and follow them wherever they lead, but not at the expense of looking down. Those who only look up will never find the stable.

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Christmas must seem like such a peculiar holiday.  A story surrounding what from the outset seems like devastation.  From the …

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Putting Christmas back in the Basement.

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Christmas is over, in the technical sense.  What lies ahead is the excitement of discovering new space when the tree …

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Christmas | an inconvenient grace

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  Whispers of peppermint breath, Billowing clouds of speech, This time in the year, This ignoring of fear, It means …

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God can be inconvenient, but the best things in life usually are.

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There are a few times in life where everything changes in an instant.  It seems that things become irreversible, you …

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This is more than a Fable in a Stable, New blog post

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Image found at raykliu.wordpress.com And there were shepherds.  I love these four words.  And there were shepherds watching their sheep …

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When life seems more Bovine than Divine

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 Consider the sheep herders that Luke writes about in his infancy narrative.  These farmers defending their sheep from the darkness …

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Licking the Wisemen and finding Frodo in my nativity set

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Your perspective of the Nativity creche in your window changes depending on where you stand.  Children at eye level have …

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