Category: Holidays

Perfection or Holiness

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Driving home from dinner after a day of unpacking…

Marcia:Wouldn’t it be amazing if we got home and God had miraculously unpacked everything and put it away for us

Brian: He could if He wanted to, but even if He did, He wouldn’t put it in the right place. You’d still have to move it.

Marcia: silence. unpack more here

Thanksgiving Season! Really?

 

post97pic1“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.” – Psalm 107:1 NLT

It is November and Thanksgiving is right around the corner, along with the challenge to be thankful! But seriously, do we have to be thankful all month?

Do we have to play along with everyone else and update our social media accounts with daily thankfulness? What if we run out of things we’re thankful for before the end of the month? Can’t we just skip November’s “Thanks” and move full speed into December’s Get me more

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Should Christians participate in Halloween activities? This is a question that I am asked almost every year and no matter how I answer there are people who disagree with me. If I had to guess, I would say that Christians are split 50/50 on whether Halloween is a wicked and evil day filled with Satanic activity, or that it is an innocent couple of hours for children to collect candy.

There are many web and magazine articles, interviews with theologians and historians and library shelves full of books that continue here

The “Unofficial” Start of Summer!

We all know summer doesn’t begin until June 21, but this weekend was the unofficial start, and it sure seemed like summer!

There was the anticipation of find more here

Memorial Day

 

cropped-flag1 Memorial Day is a day to remember and pay honor to military personnel who have died in the service of our country. I’ve only been to one military funeral; I was 9 or 10 years old and the fallen soldier was the son of my mother’s cousin.

When I was in High School, there was a Memorial Day program that paid tribute to “Gold Star Mothers”. The mother continue reading here