Category Archives: December Blogs

Tomorrow we turn the page to a new chapter in the chronicles of our pilgrimage from time to eternity. We are still on the stage of life, playing our parts, saying our pieces.  We breathe a collective, world-wide, sigh of relief as with little to no regret we bid farewell to the year 2020 that openedContinue reading “A Clean Slate”

A faithful pastor who gave his life serving others was graduated to glory a couple of days before Christmas.  He pastored two church plant churches early in his ministry, then pastored Grace Baptist Church of Muncie, Indiana, for 45 years, and if that were not enough, he rounded out his ministry by pastoring Temple Baptist ChurchContinue reading “Crown of Glory Candidate”

There is, after all the hustle and bustle of preparing for another Christmas day, an amazing aura about Christmas Eve.  Stores begin to close mid to late afternoon, traffic slows considerably, darkness sets in highlighting all the brightly beaming lights on lawns and houses, and a stillness grips the air that seems to be uncommon.  It is,Continue reading “O Holy Night”

Hush!  The angels’ songs we hear, Through time’s centuries year by year. Peace on earth, good will toward men Christ has come to bear our sin.   Wrapped in flesh the God man came. Jesus is His holy name. Came to live and came to die, “It is finished” was His cry.   Herod’s temple veilContinue reading “Christmas 2020”

In a recent installment of You and God I shared with you a favorite classic Christmas story; in this post I want to tell you of a very special Christmas for the Slutz family, one that occurred 50 years ago this coming Christmas Eve. We were living in Dallas, Texas, where I was pursuing studiesContinue reading “Night of Wonders, Christmas Eve, 1970”

My childhood memories of Christmas are treasured pictures of times precious yet contrasting to what we have become accustomed to in this 21st century.  My folks lived in post-depression years and with five small children to feed and clothe, Christmas was family, some good food with what Mom could put a meal together (and she was atContinue reading “On the Keeping of Christmas”

Do you have a favorite Christmas story?  (Other than the best of all as told in Luke 2) Maybe yours is the timeless “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens; or is it “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, or maybe “The Nutcracker” or perhaps “The Greatest Gift,” the story that was the basis forContinue reading “Stories Forever Loved”

“Are you saved?”  That three-word query, posed by a fellow warehouse worker, changed the course of Ed’s life and ultimately resulted in his being sent out as a missionary by a local Bible-preaching church that he had visited shortly after his friend asked him that soul-searching question. Hearing the gospel convincingly presented he responded at theContinue reading “They Twain Shall Be One”