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Monthly News Letter from Pastor Bill
Dear Family, What a blessing each day is in the Lord! I sure hope your relationship with Jesus Christ is progressing in the Spirit and you are daily getting closer to the One who deeply cares for you. Jesus is so amazing! Welcome to 2012. I would like again this month to welcome our newest [...]
Final Advent Devotional, Day 29 – Dec, 25th 2011
I’ll never forget the Christmas my brother and I “discovered” Santa. We had been snuggled tightly into our beds, wide awake, but sugarplum-dreaming nonetheless. As we struggled to harness sleep, we heard a jingling, a faint “Ho, ho, ho!”, and felt the hands of my parents gently nudging us out of bed. We were going [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 28 – Dec, 24th 2011
Christmas Smorgasbord! When I was kid my dad worked as a materials manager for a company. His job was to purchase all that the company needed to accomplish its mission. Because of his position many sales men would butter him up near Thanksgiving and Christmas and give him all sorts of treats and things to [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 27 – Dec, 23rd 2011
101 names of Jesus – Part IV. (Names 76-101) In our final names of Jesus devotional, I want to bring attention to one of the greatest names Jesus has ever been called – Savior. Eph 5:23 says that He is the “savior of the body,” while Titus simply calls Him, “Savior, Jesus Christ.” To say [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 26 – Dec, 22nd 2011
My favorite Christmas memory was when I got to put the angel on the top of the Christmas tree. The angel represents the angel going to Mary and telling her she was going to have a baby son. And the next day we got to open presents. Those gifts that we get represent Jesus dying [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 25 – Dec, 21st 2011
My favorite Christmas was last year. We did a countdown when December started. I got a bike ramp and How to Train Your Dragon. But that was not all. I got lots more stuff too. On Christmas morning, we woke up, ate breakfast, prayed, read the Bible – the New Testament when Jesus was born, [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 24 – Dec, 20th 2011
Feeding the Reindeer When I was a little girl, Christmas was just so much fun. We had a pretty close family and everyone always met at our house on Christmas Eve for the “Unraveling” as we called it. My parents were the only ones with little kids so that is why we usually gathered at [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 23 – Dec, 19th 2011
My best Christmas memory is the year I got my John Deere bike. I woke up very early and saw it there under the tree. I was very happy. Mom and Dad got up to see what I was yelling about. It was really a fun morning. Getting all the presents is really great, but [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 22 – Dec, 18th 2011
The Great Production One of my favorite Christmas memories comes from when I was a young child. Each year we would all gather together with my Granny’s brother and sisters and huge production would ensue. What was the focus of the production? Santa. Let me paint you a picture. All of the kids piled in [...]
Advent Devotional, Day 21 – Dec, 17th 2011
Thinking of Christmas by gones brings back memories of Christmas programs in the country school and Sunday School. They were the biggest celebrations of the year. After the plays, spoken pieces and singing we were given a Christmas stocking. It was filled with candy, nuts and the biggest apples and oranges I’d ever seen. Going [...]
