Advent 2018 Blog – St Nicholas
St Nicholas, the man behind the legend. It is amazing how our creation of the mythical Santa is so engaging
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Advent 2018 Blog -Can a Star Stop? (part 2)
Matthew 2: 9-10 the star “stops” over the place where the child was. When the Wise men saw that the star had “stopped” they were overwhelmed with joy.
Advent 2018 Blog -Can a Star Stop? (part 1)
Matthew 2: 9-10 the star “stops” over the place where the child was. When the Wise men saw that the star had “stopped” they were overwhelmed with joy.
Advent 2018 Blog -Stop in the Name of Love
It was the sound of the Supremes in 1965. Stop in the Name of Love, before you break my heart. Even those who weren’t listening to the song in “real time” know those sounds and motions of Diana Ross and the Supremes. Those out stretched arms, the classic motions...
Advent 2018 Blog – Stop and Listen
Before you proceed to Christmas: Stop, Look and Listen. We begin another Advent season with words that we don’t normally come across this time of year. Stop, Look and Listen. It is the theme of this year’s Advent Blog. These words that we teach our children as...
Gifted
Dear Friends, This week a group from our church staff went on a field trip. We went to watch and learn from a United Methodist church in Kansas City, Missouri. Like Royal Oak First, Good Shepherd in Kansas City is a fast-growing church. It was great to meet their...
Advent Blog Day 18 – One Good Gust Away
I am in LA on business and found an unexpected California Christmas. At the breakfast bar at my hotel, I was waiting for my organic carrot-ginger juice and cappuccino (when in Rome) when a man walked in dressed in full firefighting gear. He was grabbing a cup of...
Advent Blog Day 14 – Simply What?
I began this Advent Blog two weeks ago, with a paper chain filled with Bible verses and small tasks, and with the theme “Simply Christmas”. And now I ask myself…,”so how’s that workin for ya?” Simply Christmas; a more simple Christmas….??? As I type this, I can see...
Advent Blog Day 13 Opening the Envelope
On Wednesday I woke up at what my brother-in-law calls “0 dark thirty” for a business trip to Seattle. I had plugged my computer in to make sure I had a good charge for the five hour flight, a great time for writing blogs and sermons. I tossed the charging cords into...
Advent Blog Day 12 – All God’s Creatures
Remember the “moon on the breast of the new fallen snow” from Monday night? A couple of hours into the snowfall my dogs start going crazy and my daughter told me to look out of the windrow. Prancing down the middle of the street in the “lustre of midday” was a...
Advent Blog Day 10 – Reflecting the Light
Remember this Christmas line? “The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow, Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.” It is of course from The Night Before Christmas and it captures the scene here in Michigan last night. It was our first real snow fall and when...