GOOD NEWS The message of the angels to the shepherds was that there was Good News! We like good news. We certainly don't like bad news. A father came home from a very rugged day…
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SYMBOLS OF THE GREATER GIFT At a Christmas celebration in a nursing home, I asked the folks to tell us about their favorite Christmas experience. The group seemed to light up. Spontaneously one by one…
THE ARREARS OF KINDLINESS I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. David Grayson, as quoted…
VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE NATIVITY As soon as the tree is trimmed, the next Christmas event in our home is getting out the nativity scene. The pieces come from at least three different sets. They…
THE BABY GREW UP The Christmas story is the story of a baby. That is a part of its inexhaustible pull on the mind and the heart of humanity. But it is also a liability.…
THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS ' Tis the day after Christmas, and out in the den/Daddy is watching pro football again./The children are throwing and breaking their toys,/And Mother is up to her ears in the…
ALL IN A BARN ON A WINTER NIGHT A baby slung in a feedbox/Back in a barn, in a Bethlehem slum./A baby's first cry mixed with the crunch/Of a mule's teeth on Bethlehem Christmas corn./Baby…
A CHRISTMAS REFLECTION The air rests cool upon the brow./The streets are hushed and in the quiet lanes/no life stirs now. Overhead, the bare limbs creak,/naked victims of the winter wind,/barren and bleak. Stark shadows…
SEASON'S GREETINGS The church choir director was being driven out of his mind at the rehearsals for the Christmas Choral Concert. It seemed that at least one or more members of the choir was absent…
A SIGN OF STRENGTH AND MAJESTY The religious and political leaders who were in power at the time misread the events of Jesus' birth. When people are to have a baby, they go to the…
THREE WAYS OF VIEWING CHRISTMAS Well- known television communicaster Harry Reisner wrote the following: Eleven years ago in my previous incarnation on this broadcast [60 minutes] I did a little Christmas piece, it seemed like…
A PARABLE OF CHRISTMAS EVE Once there lived a king who had power over all nations and peoples. His courts were of richest Splendor; his tables were heavy with finest food. Music and laughter and…
PERFECTIONIST A perfectionist is someone who takes infinite pains -- and gives them to others. Funny, Funny World
TALK If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. Sir Alan Herbert, Sunday Times, London.
THE MARVELOUS PARADOX OF CHRISTMAS The claim that Christianity makes for Christmas is that at a particular time and place God came to be with us himself. When Quirinius was governor of Syria, in a…
SOME RULES ARE TOUGHER THAN OTHERS A true story: Four year old Jimmy was on a family vacation last summer and he was given quarters for the video game machine by his older sister. Since…
Atonement | Communion | Fellowship With God | Peace | Position | Prayer | Reconciliation | Salvation
ENTRY There was a soldier in the Union Army, a youngest son who had lost his older brother and his father in the war. He went to Washington, D. C. to see President Lincoln to…
WISDOM Fear of jail is the beginning of wisdom. [Nigerian proverb] Funny, Funny World
THE FACE OF JESUS As a teenager I heard Cecil Henson tell his "death story" many times. He was one of those brilliant, sensitive people that happens occasionally to a small town. Incredibly, in 1940…
OPTIMIST/PESSIMIST An optimist is one who believes he lives in the best of all worlds. A Pessimist fears that this is true.
