Bible Reading Plans

With New Year’s Day quickly approaching, many of us are contemplating our New Year’s resolutions. Hopefully, each of us is considering the importance of reading the Bible daily in 2007. Below are some links to websites that will assist you in your bible reading efforts this year.
Back to the Bible – Offers five unique guides [...]

Questions for a New Year

Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God had told them.
Even [...]

Family Photo

Photo taken Sunday, December 24, 2006 at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
 

The Davis Spa

Yesterday (Christmas day) morning, after opening presents I went back to bed. I have some kind of stomach bug that seems to have infected half of Wilson. Last night, I went into the Living Room to play the piano with the girls. I was wondering why there were cucumbers on the chair and then I [...]

Meaningful Christmas Tradition

Several years ago I heard my good friend Rand Hummel relay a tradition that his family practices every Christmas. Since then, each Christmas Joanna and I have tried to incorporate the same tradition into our Christmas celebration.
Yesterday morning (Christmas day), we enjoyed the time with our family opening our Christmas presents. Before the children were [...]

Our Children Getting Into the Christmas Spirit

See Caleb | See Bethany | See Abigail | See Hannah

Christmas is Costly

It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect the little Babe. It cost mothers in and around Bethlehem the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod. It cost the shepherds the complacency of their shepherds’ life, with the call to the [...]

I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas (Part 2)

In the last post I mentioned that I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. Of course, I would love to have snow this Christmas. My children love snow. My wife loves snow. I love snow, at least for a little while and then I’m glad to see it go. One of my favorite holiday classics is [...]

I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas

I would like to challenge you today to take a moment and let the Christmas rush turn into the Christmas hush.
Think for just a minute, “What do I want for Christmas?”
I read a sermon from Mark Adams and he replied in song to that same question…
“Well, since you asked, what I really want is …
“Chestnuts [...]

Bah! Humbug!

Most of us are familiar with Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. We can recite backward and forward the tale of how the experiences of Ebenezer Scrooge with the three ghosts force him to confront his self-absorbed existence and cause him to realize that the true joy of life is serving others.We read the story [...]