Christmas & New Year
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The Logic of Love
There’s something that has bothered me for many years. And ...
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Something to Think About
As we turn our thoughts toward Christmas there’s something that, ...
Day Before
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What’s the Point?
Question: What was God thinking when He hatched this plan that these ...
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Christmas is Coming
Shocking though it is, we’re only ten days out from Christmas. Ten ...
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And So Life Goes On
Pretty soon the whole Christmas thing, that briefest of blips in the ...
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Once Upon a Time …
Once upon a time, Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem and little baby ...
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This Crazy Plan
As crazy confusing plans go, this thing we call “Christmas” is ...
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Great Expectations
So what in the blazes do the events of two thousand years ago, the ...
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The Promise of Christmas
The coming of Jesus into this world wasn’t anything like the ...
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What Are You Expecting?
Would you mind if I asked bluntly today … what’s going on in your ...
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The Riches of God
There’s something that happens to you when the glory of God fills ...
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Not by Merit, But by Mercy
Very soon we’ll be celebrating Christmas: remembering how God ...
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Christmas in July
Depending on where you live, what I’m about to ask you may sound ...
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Confident Grace
Well, a blessed and a merry Christmas to you on this Christmas day, ...
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Thank God for Grace
Yep, it’s Christmas Eve … time to get serious about wrapping our ...
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Finding Grace
I don’t know how it is for you, but the grace of God completely ...
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Seeking Grace
Christmas is a special time … a very special time. But it’s also ...
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Messy Grace
And here we are yet again. We’ve turned the corner and it’s the ...
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The Whole Job
With Christmas fast heading our way, many of us will be planning how ...
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Don’t Live in the Past
Whether this past year has been a great one, an ordinary one or a ...
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Your Slate is Wiped Clean
Well, here we are it’s just after Christmas, again! A time of rest ...
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Your Home Forever
Well, that’s it. Christmas is done and dusted, over for another ...
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Let the Light Shine
Well, a merry Christmas to you. Wherever you are, however, you’re ...
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A Cheap Imitation of Christmas
Today, right around the world, children will be leaving a glass of ...
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When the Rain Comes Down
Early in the morning when I was sitting in my study, pecking away at ...
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Do You Have Your Presents Ready to Go?
When you think about it, the tradition of putting presents under the ...
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The Humble King
Whilst ‘freedom’ is not a word that we generally associate with ...
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Missing Loved Ones
As we turn the corner into this Christmas week, some people are ...
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Let’s Make it Real
Christmas is just around the corner and it’s a great celebration. ...
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God Loves a Sinful World
Why did Jesus come to this earth? Why is it that in a week or so ...
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Another Year Begins
It doesn’t matter what plans you have for the future. It’s how ...
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Another Year’s Gone
So as you look ahead to the new year, what sort of a year do you ...
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A Time for a Rest
How are you going to spend this week? Doing stuff, or thinking about ...
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A Gift for the Poor
There’s a tradition that goes back centuries that God wants you to ...
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A Lonely Affair
How will you spend today? Surrounded by people, or completely alone?
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The Human Condition
There’s a hole, an emptiness, that’s been engineered into your ...
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Turmoil of the Soul
So, are you in the mood for Christmas or not? And if not, now what?
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If God Showed Up at Your Front Door
So, if God showed up at your front door, how would you react?
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Are You Ready to Receive?
Will it be just another Christmas, or are you ready to receive the ...
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The Uncertainty of Certainty
If today were your last on this earth, what would you do with the ...
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Be that New Person
What would you change in your life right now if you could?
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If I Could Turn Back Time
How to let go of the past so you can lay hold of the new year.
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Upside Down and Inside Out
As you and I cast our gaze forward to the year we’re about to step ...
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A Future With Hope
Okay, so what are you looking forward to next year? Anything? Or in ...
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Packing Away the Christmas Tree
This week between Christmas and Easter is always a funny sort of ...
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The Terrified Shepherds
There are two parts – two dimensions – to the Christmas story. ...
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The Baby Shower
Now in the whole Christmas story, the real misfits, the odd-men-out ...
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Christmas, Just Imagine!
Can I ask you something? What exactly does a Christmas tree with ...
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What’s in a Name?
The great risk of just doing yet another Christmas, of skating over ...
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Starry, Starry Night
When all is said and done, Christmas is all about Jesus. That may not ...
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Before Christmas
When we think about Christmas, probably the last thing we associate ...
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Big Christmas, Small Christmas
As we hurtle towards yet another Christmas in our lives, I wonder, ...
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Christmas and Suffering
Do you know what scares me about Christmas? It’s the fact that we ...
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Oh Come All Ye Faithful
I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be ...
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Away in a Manger
Christmas inevitably comes with a lot of trappings these days. ...
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A Fresh, New Beginning
Here we are. A new day … a new year. What are you going to do with ...
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Laying the Year to Rest
The past is the past, we know that. But it can be difficult to let go ...
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My Best for God
Here we are in this funny little week between Christmas and New Year. ...
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Unto Us a Child is Born
The coming of Jesus into this world, wasn’t some last minute rush ...
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Silent Night
However many times you’ve celebrated Christmas in your life, it’s ...
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The Rocky Road to Christmas
How do you celebrate Christmas, when you’re not travelling all that ...
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It’s the Thought that Counts
Christmas presents. They can be a bit of a hit-and-miss affair. There ...
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A Strange King
If you were God, and you were planning the entry of your Son into ...
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The Bread of Life
There’s nothing quite like walking past a bread shop in the ...
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Expecting Mediocrity
So, it’s that time of year again. We’re heading towards ...
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The Perfect Church
These days, so many people are so fed up with church, that they’ve ...
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Three Truths to Cling To
We’ve all had good years and bad years. I’m sure there are one or ...
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Next Year
Okay, so it’s almost New Year. It’s a time when our thoughts ...
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You Can’t Un-spill Milk
As you look back on this past year, I’m sure there are some things ...
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The Pain of the Past
So here we are in this funny little week between Christmas and New ...
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The Sign
I know, I know, it’s the day after Christmas. You probably ate too ...
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Glory to God
I’ve been thinking how that very first Christmas might have played ...
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Shepherds on Facebook
Have you ever considered just how much trouble God went to, to invite ...
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Fact is Stranger than Fiction
I tell you, the satellite navigation on my smartphone is just the ...
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Tweeting Christmas
I’m trying to imagine, if Mary and Joseph had had a smartphone as ...