Monthly Archives: December 2020

Luke 2:21-35 In The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams tells us how the Skin Horse had the experience that made him real.  She also uses the Skin Horse to tell the troubled Velveteen Rabbit how to become real.  When the Velveteen Rabbit became real, it was the experience of knowing that it was loved.  Then the Velveteen Rabbit became real like the Skin Horse. The year 2020 is almost history.  Did you discover that you were real or becoming real in…..

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Luke 2:1-20 It was the Christmas season of 1947.  It had been a tough year on the farm.  The boll weevil had been attacking our cotton crop and had reduced the production of our cash crop for the farm.  My oldest sister and I went out and found a cedar tree for our Christmas tree that year.  We did not have high expectations for Christmas gifts that year.  I had put in a request for a football, but I did…..

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Luke 1:39-55 What fills our daily agenda? We live just one day at a time and each day we fill the agenda of that day with many things. But as we look at the agenda for each day we have lived, we ask ourselves how much joy have we derived from what we had on our agenda. In the “people’s business” that I have been in since 1964 when I got my local preachers’ license, I have seen too few…..

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Luke 1:5-23 In our own lives, and as a nation, we face events and times when things look hopeless.  In the spring of 1958, I was single, working, and living in my parents’ home.  I had a closet full of nice clothes; shirts, pants, jackets, coats, and shoes.  But one day, I experienced how fast a life can change.  Lightning struck our home that day and started a fire.  We had no rural fire department.  That night I stood on…..

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Isaiah 52:1-12 On this first Sunday of Advent in 2020, Iets focus on one of the many gifts God gives, and this gift is available to each of us.  It is the gift of inner peace that comes to us by faith in Jesus Christ.  Volumes of human history are written about the turmoil and chaos that we humans have created by the way we have chosen to live.   The prophet Isaiah’s ministry lasted over fifty years from 740-687 BC. …..

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