Today is Christmas and I’m alone. No family get-together. No gift exchange. No big meal. No jingle belling or singing carols around the piano. But don’t feel sorry for me. I’m in my jammies, watching
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Night had fallen — in the hearts of men, across the face of the earth.
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For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah
Read moreChristmas Kookie
“The problem with Christianity is always the Christian, never the Christ.” My Pastor drilled this perspective into my head before ordaining me as a prison minister some fifteen years ago. Never is this more apparent
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