Yesterday I recalled how great our parents were at doing Christmas. Today I saw an article called “16 Daddy Christmas Tips” by Pastor Mark Driscoll on Dec 19, 2011 in Parenting. I though I would take what he suggested and twist it to my own strange views. It’s […]
Month: December 2011
Getting Christmas Right
This will be my sixty-second Christmas. Anything you do 62 times, you should get right. But I still seem to have trouble getting Christmas right. Maybe I have improved in my approach. For many of my initial Christmases I focused on what I was going […]
Loving honesty
How often when asked how things are going have you responded “fine” when life was anything but fine. It’s easier to be nice than to be honest. Frankly, when we ask how things are going, we often really don’t want to know. We certainly aren’t […]
Heart and Mouth
[33] “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.[34] “Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of […]
Simple Trust
“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Matthew 5:37 NKJV Communication is tough but we make it harder than it needs to be. We can’t seem to just say what we […]
Communication
There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health. Proverbs 12:18 One out of our young people say they have never had a meaningful conversation with their father. That’s just one of many alarming statistics […]
Sacrifice
16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no […]
Acceptance
7 Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory. Romans 15:7 NLT We seem to have a natural aversion to anything, or anyone, different. This makes our lives very boring. If we live only with those that […]