Yesterday, I saw a forgotten bumper sticker on the back of a car- Keep Christ in Christmas. It made me think of the manufactured “war on Christmas” that some groups have perpetuated in the last few years. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter if we are saying “Happy Holidays’ or “Merry Christmas” if we ignore the…
Airports and Advent
I’ve spent more time in airports during the last year and a half than I have in the previous ten years combined. For a dedicate people watcher, an airport is a fascinating, if not tiring, place. One common thread I’ve picked up on is that we are busy…busy doing things we feel like we must…
You Are Enough
I put up Christmas lights yesterday. For someone who doesn’t like to climb ladders, this is a daunting task. In Atlanta, we had a neighbor who held nothing back when it came to putting up Christmas lights. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, he would begin a two-day project of putting up lights, inflatable…
The Work of Christmas
This appeared today as the Christmas Day devotion for my congregation. Sandy Springs Christian Church. The child is here, and through him the whole world rejoices. I think we love Christmas Day so much because the world stops. We have some time to simply be. What a wonderful gift! Tomorrow, life will begin again, in…
The First Birth Annoucement
We love to get birth announcements in the mail. The announcement usually arrives with a picture of the baby, the proud parents and sister and brothers' names and their weight and height. For a baseball card comparison, it's life's rookie card. Jesus' parents didn't have to send out a birth announcement because of an angel…
Jesus Was Not Born So You Could Get a Good Deal on a Televsion
Keep Christ in...Starbucks? The war on Christmas has begun. More precisely, the war on the war on Christmas has begun. This is an annual tradition where some Christians decide that everyone and everything is conspiring together to do away with Christmas and anything having to do with the birth of Jesus all together. The most…
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