It’s a quiet Monday a little over two weeks before Christmas. The first of the year the family will be spread from Oregon to Michigan to Wisconsin to New Mexico but for Christmas we will be together at Granville Cottage. Saturday afternoon Lois and I drove to Canada to speak for a Christmas Banquet. The […]
Christmas Through The Eyes of Your Heart
It’s Christmastime again in the Downriver and money is tight. As wonderful as the season is, you can sometimes feel the financial and emotional pressure in the air. If your heart has eyes for it you can see it. Jim is one of our deacons. Jim and Bea needed gas one day last week. They […]
Children Who Are Givers
Classic re-post from 2002 No one loves Christmastime more than I do. But when you are the head of the household it has its attendant frustrations. One of them is finding the money to cover regular expenses and the additional expectations of Christmas gifts and celebrations and trips. One December afternoon about ten years ago […]
Ann Voskamp Advent Video
(Holly and Jesse’s Fireplace in Oregon, ready for Christmas) Holly pointed me to a simple, home-made advent video by Ann Voskamp… Ann said something wonderful and worth thinking about today…. “Maybe more than scientific conclusive evidence of God… maybe the dark depths of us long for a wounded weeping God who doesn’t write answers for […]
Are You A Doer or Just a Reader?
It was the first evening of our big Christmas musical. The building was filling up with people to celebrate Christ’s birth. There was a happy excited buzz in the air. People were dressed for Christmas. Here at Evangel the Christmas Musical is pretty serious business. The choir works hard, memorizes their music and uses special […]
It’s Almost Christmas
A couple years ago I witnessed something sad and made a note about it in my journal. Today I want to share that entry with you… It’s almost Christmas. I wouldn’t mind if it was a little colder and a little snowier. Yesterday I realized that not everyone feels that way. I had worked hard […]