Christmas and Advent

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  10 Signs You Might Be a Scrooge This Holiday Season Peace, love, and joy don’t come with price tags. Grace and mercy never require dusting or cleaning out. Make room on your wish list this season for gifts of the spirit!
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  3 Things to Pray for This Christmas Season How can we, as believers, maintain our focus on the substance and sacredness of Christ and His Advent? With intentional and specific (yet simple) prayers. Denise Kohlmeyer Dec 12, 2022
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  5 Craft Ideas to Try This Christmas During the Christmas season, many of us enjoy making crafts to fill our homes or to give to friends and family. If you want to make a few Christmas crafts this year, here are five Christmas holiday crafts to...
• 5 Reasons to Watch A Christmas Story Christmas This sequel, set in 1973, thirty-three years after the original, will not disappoint fans of the original classic. With brilliant storytelling and parallels to the original and starring the original child... Michelle S. Lazurek Dec 09, 2022
• Should We Go to Church When Christmas Falls on a Sunday? Since Christmas is about Jesus, and believers historically meet on Sundays in remembrance of Jesus’ resurrection, then Christmas Sunday is a wonderful day to worship with other members of the church. Sophia Bricker Dec 09, 2022
• Facing Heartache at the Holidays My single years held many Christmases like that one—sweet joys in the midst of silent anguish, bitterness tangled up in beauty. Colleen Chao Dec 09, 2022
• What Is the Significance of Mary Visiting Elizabeth? Mary, and the unborn Son of God, brought God’s grace and confirmation to both of them. The grace and confirmation it brought caused the Holy Spirit to fill Elizabeth and made the child in her womb leap. Jessica Brodie Dec 08, 2022
• How to Give the Greatest Gift This Christmas Perhaps there is no other time of the year that people are more open to hearing the name of Jesus, which provides Christians the opportunity to proclaim it boldly. Jay Lowder Dec 07, 2022
• 5 Fitness and Health Tips for the Holidays Being in a body is a lot of work! The struggle to use self-control and develop healthy life rhythms never ends. It's not without sacrifice or grief, either! When my body first started breaking, I truly had... Amanda Idleman Dec 07, 2022
• The Bible: Our Holiday Instruction Manual Our holiday how-to is found in the pages of Scripture, which connect Jesus to the entirety of the Bible, not just the New Testament. We can learn from the reality of His birth on earth, how to walk out God’s...
• 10 Ways to Make Christmas Morning Magical for Your Kids There’s something magical about waking up to see the living room transformed overnight. One way to do this is to “wrap” the entrance where the Christmas tree is located. After the kids go to bed, cover the... Sarah Hamaker Dec 06, 2022
• 6 Daddy/Daughter Christmas Dates Ultimately, you are showing her what it is like to have an impactful, intimate relationship with the Savior, which is the real reason for the season we celebrate.  Michelle S. Lazurek Dec 06, 2022