What Some Jews Say About "Merry Christmas"
Ben Stein, hilarious comedian and deep thinker, shares the following about the Christmas holidays . . . "I am a Jew and every single one...
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Why the Virgin Birth Matters
“The virgin birth is a necessary foundation to Christmas and the believer’s life,” says renowned pastor and seminary president, Jack Hayf...
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Why the Virgin Birth Matters
“The virgin birth is a necessary foundation to Christmas and the believer’s life,” says renowned pastor and seminary president, Jack Hayf...
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Christmas Moments - Inspiring and Encouraging Stories
Looking for a good, easy Christmas read for you or someone you love? I've enjoyed contributing to three Christmas books in the Moments se...
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Christmas Moments - Inspiring and Encouraging Stories
Looking for a good, easy Christmas read for you or someone you love? I've enjoyed contributing to three Christmas books in the Moments se...
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Scrooooooooge!!!
After Christmas last year, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to my family. Somehow ...
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"It's a Wonderful Life" and You and Me
Powerful, provoking article. I've watched the movie since 1988 and haven't ever pondered all of these insights . . . "But for the powerful...
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The Conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge
After Christmas last year, I decided that during December this year I would read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to my family. Some...
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Truth Came to Us At Christmas
Over 150 law enforcement officers and their spouses recently attended one of these retreats at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove ...
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Christmas Moments Series
Looking for a good, easy Christmas read for you or someone you love? I've enjoyed contributing to three Christmas books in the Moments...
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Scrooooooooge!!!
After Christmas last year, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to my family. Somehow ...
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Truth Came to Us At Christmas
Over 150 law enforcement officers and their spouses recently attended one of these retreats at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove ...
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"It's a Wonderful Life" and You and Me
Powerful, provoking article. I've watched the movie since 1988 and haven't ever pondered all of these insights . . . "But for the powerful...
1 min readAdvent Rediscovered by Southern Baptists
A friend surprised me tonight by emailing me a link to the following Baptist Press article and asking if I knew I was quoted in the article ...
1 min readAdvent Rediscovered by Southern Baptists
A friend surprised me tonight by emailing me a link to the following Baptist Press article and asking if I knew I was quoted in the article ...
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The Conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge
After Christmas last year, I decided that during December this year I would read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to my family. Some...
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Christmas Moments Series
Looking for a good, easy Christmas read for you or someone you love? I've enjoyed contributing to three Christmas books in the Moments...
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Scrooooooge!
Article originally write in 2013. After Christmas last year, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christm...
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Baby, I'm Offended Outside
Here we go again. In the past several weeks, someone decided Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and the song Baby...
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Immanuel: The God Who is With Us
"So the message of Christmas is that we can know God—not just about God, but know God through our Lord Jesus, Immanuel. Salvation is a per...
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Baby, I'm Offended Outside
Here we go again. In the past several weeks, someone decided Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and the song Baby...
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Scrooooooge!
Article originally write in 2013. After Christmas last year, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christm...
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Immanuel: The God Who is With Us
"So the message of Christmas is that we can know God—not just about God, but know God through our Lord Jesus, Immanuel. Salvation is a per...
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Scrooooooooooooge!
After Christmas two years ago, I decided that during December of 2013 I would read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to my family. Someh...
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7 Ways for Dads to Maximize the Holidays
The last two months of the year offer two fantastic holy days to celebrate - Thanksgiving and Christmas. Let's plan special ways to infl...
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It’s a Wonderful Life at 75: A Christmas Lesson Left on the Cutting Room Floor
Powerful, provoking article. I've watched the movie since 1988 and haven't ever pondered all of these insights . . . "But for the powerful...
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It’s a Wonderful Life at 75: A Christmas Lesson Left on the Cutting Room Floor
Powerful, provoking article. I've watched the movie since 1988 and haven't ever pondered all of these insights . . . "But for the powerful...
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"Ring Those Bells" - Christmas album by Rhett and Tracey Wilson
Rhett and Tracey Wilson just released a new Christmas album called “Ring Those Bells.” Recorded at the Daywind Studios in Hendersonville,...
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Surprised by God, Part One
Life contains many surprises. Some of them excite us, like falling in love, receiving a refund check from your insurance company, or real...
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"Ring Those Bells" - Christmas album by Rhett and Tracey Wilson
Rhett and Tracey Wilson just released a new Christmas album called “Ring Those Bells.” Recorded at the Daywind Studios in Hendersonville,...
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Plan A and Plan B
Yesterday I preached on The Surprises of God from various Christmas texts. Here is a word of wisdom from Charles Swindoll in one of the ...
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Surprised by God, Part One
Life contains many surprises. Some of them excite us, like falling in love, receiving a refund check from your insurance company, or real...
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Christmas Moments Press Release
Just in time for the holidays, best-selling author Yvonne Lehman has gathered memories from 34 Christian authors into an unforgettable fait...
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Defend the Field! - Post by Rhett Wilson, Sr.
Faith, Family, and Freedom. Week of 12.15.20 The 2020 Presidential Election was fatally flawed, with massive deception and criminali...
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Defend the Field! - Post by Rhett Wilson, Sr.
Faith, Family, and Freedom. Week of 12.15.20 The 2020 Presidential Election was fatally flawed, with massive deception and criminali...
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The Danger of “I” in Christian Prayer
Wise words from Dr. Albert Mohler . . . "Over the past several decades I have noticed that many Christians tend to begin their prayer...
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The Danger of “I” in Christian Prayer
Wise words from Dr. Albert Mohler . . . "Over the past several decades I have noticed that many Christians tend to begin their prayer...
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6 Ideas for Celebrating Advent as a Family
Parents plan for it. Churches celebrate it. Stores open their doors early for it. Children long all year for it for it. December 25, the ...
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Surprised by God, Part Two
Read part one of this series, Surprised by God, Part One. When Paige Patterson resigned as the President of Southeastern Baptist The...
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Simple Ways to Remember Christ this Christmas
Everybody is rushing this time of year. La st Friday, we had an outpatient surgery, a baske tball game, a piano recital, and a choir rehea...
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Refusing the Scrooge Spirit
Every holiday season, I enjoy and appreciate the thoughts of Pastor Jack Hayford as they relate to celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas....
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The Characters of Christmas Luke 2:21-40 Joseph and Mary (21-24,39 ) • They knew and obeyed the revealed, written law of the Lord. • They de...
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Simple Ways to Remember Christ this Christmas
Everybody is rushing this time of year. La st Friday, we had an outpatient surgery, a baske tball game, a piano recital, and a choir rehea...
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My Grandfather: 100 Years Old Today
I can’t help remembering the things that were most precious to me. - Macduff in Shakespeare's Macbeth 100 ...
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Surprised by God, Part Two
Read part one of this series, Surprised by God, Part One. When Paige Patterson resigned as the President of Southeastern Baptist The...
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Homeplace Celebrates 30 Years of Hospitality
Dianne Catoe sat in church one Sunday in 1994 and sensed a nudge from the Lord to turn her barn into a live nativity to tell the story of ...
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Homeplace Celebrates 30 Years of Hospitality
Dianne Catoe sat in church one Sunday in 1994 and sensed a nudge from the Lord to turn her barn into a live nativity to tell the story of ...
4 min readThe Characters of Christmas
The Characters of Christmas Luke 2:21-40 Joseph and Mary (21-24,39 ) • They knew and obeyed the revealed, written law of the Lord. • They de...
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Life to Life Discipleship
"And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." - 2 Ti...
2 min readDo Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
Albert Mohler aptly addresses one of the pressing theological questions of our day. "A statement made by a professor at a leading evan...
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Life to Life Discipleship
"And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." - 2 Ti...
2 min readDo Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
Albert Mohler aptly addresses one of the pressing theological questions of our day. "A statement made by a professor at a leading evan...
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Surprised by God, Part Three
This article continues the Surprised by God series. Read article one here and article two here. During my college years, I dated a yo...
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Anti-Christian Bigotry or Ignorance?
" MSNBC ’s Rachel Maddow is in the news for being critical of Liberty University . No university is perfect, but let me just share a lit...
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The Black Robe Regiment
Did you know that the British saw the clergy in the USA as being largely responsible for the ideas behind American independence and that the...
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Surprised by God, Part Three
This article continues the Surprised by God series. Read article one here and article two here. During my college years, I dated a yo...
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Anti-Christian Bigotry or Ignorance?
" MSNBC ’s Rachel Maddow is in the news for being critical of Liberty University . No university is perfect, but let me just share a lit...
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Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas
Apparently, many Americans have forgotten that Christmas is not only a Christian holy day, but also an American national holiday. Just...
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Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas
Apparently, many Americans have forgotten that Christmas is not only a Christian holy day, but also an American national holiday. Just...
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What Some Jews Say About "Merry Christmas"
Ben Stein on the Christmas holidays . . . "I am a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish, and it does not bother me even a ...
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I came across this magnificent poem by Rod Jellema today . . . Take a Chance If you cancel the trip to Innesfree because it's raining, you m...
1 min readPoem for Christmas
I came across this magnificent poem by Rod Jellema today . . . Take a Chance If you cancel the trip to Innesfree because it's raining, you m...
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Make Me a Child Again
I'm alone this Christmas Eve beside the tree, Yet a presence I can feel Calls for me to honestly and humbly come, And in His presence kn...
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Christmas Prayer
by Peter Marshall We yearn, our Father, for the simple beauty of Christmas -- for all the old famliar melodies and words that remind u...
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Christmas Prayer
by Peter Marshall We yearn, our Father, for the simple beauty of Christmas -- for all the old famliar melodies and words that remind u...
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6 Short Prayers for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
I found this article by Bob Hostetler very helpful! "Everyone wants to make the annual celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth more meani...
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6 Short Prayers for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
I found this article by Bob Hostetler very helpful! "Everyone wants to make the annual celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth more meani...
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Christmas Prayer
by Peter Marshall We yearn, our Father, for the simple beauty of Christmas -- for all the old famliar melodies and words that remind us ...
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Merry Christmas from the Wilsons
December 2018 Christmas greetings to one and all from the Wilsons! We will remember 2018 as a season of change for our family...
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Letting Go of Christmas
Reposted from December 2013 . . . It is always hard for me to let go of Christmas. The fall months are my favorite time of year – all lea...
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Letting Go of Christmas
Reposted from December 2013 . . . It is always hard for me to let go of Christmas. The fall months are my favorite time of year – all lea...
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Merry Christmas from the Wilsons
December 2018 Christmas greetings to one and all from the Wilsons! We will remember 2018 as a season of change for our family...
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Cherished Traces of a Merry Christmas
Here's a great word for the day after Christmas . . . "The silence inside my small house made it feel huge and empty. No laughter. No lit...
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Cherished Traces of a Merry Christmas
Here's a great word for the day after Christmas . . . "The silence inside my small house made it feel huge and empty. No laughter. No lit...
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The Jealous King
He was a madman. He exiled or killed off all of his wives. A master of manipulation, he worked to gain the favor of the people above and b...
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The Jealous King
He was a madman. He exiled or killed off all of his wives. A master of manipulation, he worked to gain the favor of the people above and b...
5 min readMake Me a Child Again
I'm alone this Christmas Eve beside the tree, Yet a presence I can feel Calls for me to honestly and humbly come, And in His presence kn...
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The Lost Week of the Year
See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. - Ephesians 5:15-16 "The l...
1 min readThe Characters of Christmas
The characters in the biblical texts surrounding the birth of Christ reveal much to seeking minds and hearts about what it means to walk b...
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Why the Virgin Birth of Christ Matters
“The virgin birth is a necessary foundation to Christmas and the believer’s life,” says renowned pastor and seminary president, Jack Hayfo...
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The Lost Week of the Year
See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. - Ephesians 5:15-16 "The l...
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Cherished Traces of a Merry Christmas
Here's a good word for the days after Christmas . . . "The silence inside my small house made it feel huge and empty. No laughter. No lit...
1 min readThe Characters of Christmas
The characters in the biblical texts surrounding the birth of Christ reveal much to seeking minds and hearts about what it means to walk b...
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Cherished Traces of a Merry Christmas
Here's a good word for the days after Christmas . . . "The silence inside my small house made it feel huge and empty. No laughter. No lit...
1 min readMake Me a Child Again
I'm alone this Christmas Eve beside the tree, Yet a presence I can feel Calls for me to honestly and humbly come, And in His presence kn...
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Why the Virgin Birth of Christ Matters
“The virgin birth is a necessary foundation to Christmas and the believer’s life,” says renowned pastor and seminary president, Jack Hayfo...
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Letting Go of Christmas
It is always hard for me to let go of Christmas. The fall months are my favorite time of year – all leading up to Christ’s birthday. For...
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Mary Poppins Returns - Delightful!
The new Mary Poppins Returns movie delivers warmth, fun, and a jolly holiday with Mary! My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. ...
1 min readMary Poppins Returns - Delightful!
The new Mary Poppins Returns movie delivers warmth, fun, and a jolly holiday with Mary! My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. ...
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Letting Go of Christmas
It is always hard for me to let go of Christmas. The fall months are my favorite time of year – all leading up to Christ’s birthday. For...
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Surprised by God, Part Four
This article continues the series entitled Surprised by God, Part One , Surprised by God, Part Two , and Surprised by God, Part Three. ...
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Surprised by God, Part Four
This article continues the series entitled Surprised by God, Part One , Surprised by God, Part Two , and Surprised by God, Part Three. ...
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The Jealous King and the Wise Men
He was a madman. He exiled or killed off all of his wives. A master of manipulation, he worked to gain the favor of the people above and...
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The Jealous King and the Wise Men
He was a madman. He exiled or killed off all of his wives. A master of manipulation, he worked to gain the favor of the people above and...
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Top 14 Favorite Christmas Movies and Specials
One of my favorite December (and sometimes January) traditions is watching Christmas movies and specials. HERE ARE MY FAVORITES!!! 1. The ...
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Top 14 Favorite Christmas Movies and Specials
One of my favorite December (and sometimes January) traditions is watching Christmas movies and specials. HERE ARE MY FAVORITES!!! 1. The ...
1 min readMy Favorite Things . . .
As I look back upon 2011, here are a few of my favorite things! Favorite (Serious) Books I Read 1. A Nation Like No Other by Newt Gingrich ...
2 min readMy Favorite Things . . .
As I look back upon 2011, here are a few of my favorite things! Favorite (Serious) Books I Read 1. A Nation Like No Other by Newt Gingrich ...
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4 reasons Christians should care about politics
"During the course of a presidential campaign, it is common to hear evangelicals, especially younger ones, quip, 'I’m just not that inter...
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4 reasons Christians should care about politics
"During the course of a presidential campaign, it is common to hear evangelicals, especially younger ones, quip, 'I’m just not that inter...
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