MERRY CHRISTMAS! Yes, for me the day after Thanksgiving begins the Christmas Season. This season and particularly Christmas day (Dec. 25th) is the time that was set aside a long time ago for the whole body of Christ in unity to celebrate and honor the gift from GOD the FATHER to the world. This gift…
Category: Advent/Christmas
Does the Celebration of JESUS have to end on CHRISTmas day?
No, I don’t think so! So here is my plan to keep the celebration going. Just as a Christian is called to daily remove the old man, the flesh that we were before CHRIST came into our hearts and lives; we will begin to remove the typical Christmas decorations; the tree, the nutcrackers, the…
Why CHRISTMAS?
The ONE whose birth I celebrate at what we call Christmas, was born with a purpose!! HE was born as flesh, yet HE was also fully GOD. HE was born so that GOD could walk with us to reveal HIMSELF, as a FATHER, a friend, Savior and reveal HIS NEW Covenant in more detail….
Christmas……..How we Celebrate
Post from 12/2009 We celebrate Christmas by solemnly and joyfully reflecting on the real reason for this Season. The reason is our Messiah ….. Emmanual……God with us!! We celebrate because of Christ, we celebrate HIM, we celebrate His Father, His beginning, His family tree, His heritage, His birth, His character, His love, His forgiveness, His purpose, His life, His words,…
Walk with HIM: Where I’ve seen Jesus this season?
And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. John 1:14 Where have I seen Jesus this…
Walk with Him: Christmas…..How We Celebrate
We celebrate Christmas by solemnly and joyfully reflecting on the real reason for this Season. The reason is our Messiah…..Emmanual…….God with us! We celebrate because of Christ, we celebrate HIM, we celebrate His Father, His beginning, His family tree, His heritage, His birth, His character, His love, His forgiveness, His purpose, His life, His words, His death, His blood, His resurrection…
Handicraft/Life Skills Spotlight and Challenge
Wood Working/Building Construction Since Handicrafts/Life skills are an important part of our family I wanted to spotlight it on my blog . I also wanted to offer a weekly challenge (or we can just call it an invitation =) to anyone who happens to read my blog. This would be great for both Home schooling…
Our Christmas Tree
The day after Thanksgiving I brought out the tree and put it together. The boys came in from being outside with their daddy and were so excited to see it. When they started putting the decorations on it I ask them why we put a tree up? They said because it’s Jesus’ Birthday. I said…
Our Advent/Christmas Traditions
Here are a few ways/resources we use to celebrate Advent (Coming of Christ). This will be the 3rd year we have used these resources except it will be the first time we have used the three books mentioned. A couple of years ago I started praying and desiring ways to bring the true meaning of Christmas to…
Check out this Inspiring Blog
You have got to check out my good friends blog, she has such wonderful ideas about everything!!! She is also such a gifted writer and she loves the Lord with all her heart!! Right now would be a great time to check her blog out because she is posting every Friday with Holiday ideas that will truly…
Christmas Gift Giving Ideas
When it comes to time to give our children gifts this year I wanted to do something different (My husband said that was fine =) and with this idea in mind I ended up once again being inspired by a friend of mine. Check out her post on gift giving ideas HERE! They are wonderful!! Here are the…
Amazing Advent Resource
I just found out that Ann Voskamp (amazing) author of Holy Experience Blog and author of A Child’s Geography Book (a wonderful book) has put together a book to use along with a Jesse Tree during Advent. It’s called: The Glorious Coming – A Jesse Tree Advent Celebration. The statement below is on the website…
More December Highlights
1st pic: Our boys just put out milk and cookies for you know who 2nd pic: Is of the boys on the bed we made them in our room. They were pretty excited so needless to say it took a little while to get to sleep. 3rd pic: Our oldest with his new gun on…
Tis the Season
Here we have our Churches Christmas Party plus surprise birthday party for my mom. As you can see she was surprised!! We went to a live nativity performance at a near by church. This was the second year we visited this church to see this performance but this year they added Jesus Crucifixion, Resurrection and…
Christmas at Our Home (Plus Advent/Christmas Resources)
Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You…
Clean UP and Clean OUT Time!!
Today I decided that we were going to go through the boys room and they were going to pick out toys that they wanted to give away. I gave them a bag for the things they were giving away and they were happy to go get started. Of course I ended up finishing the job…
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