Monthly Archives: December 2022

Looking Ahead to 2023

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Words cannot express what a privilege it has been to be part of your mornings the past twelve months. As in past years, I’m going to step back this week and take a five-day “Sabbath rest.” Morning reflections will return next Monday, January 2.  Until then, may God bless you as you ponder his gifts of grace during the past year, and the… Read more »

The Nativity Story

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. And finally, here at the end of the month, we… Read more »

The Polar Express

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. “Seeing is believing.  But sometimes the most real things in… Read more »

Love Actually

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Watching Love Actually is like grabbing a meal at Golden… Read more »

Elf

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Even in some of the most celebrated “holiday movies,” Christmas… Read more »

Little Women

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Louisa May Alcott’s most famous novel, Little Women, creates the… Read more »

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Christmas movies come in all shapes and sizes.  Some are… Read more »

Home Alone

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Bad assumptions can lead to big mistakes. Shortly before shooting began… Read more »

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. Things go wrong all the time.  Those six words sum up… Read more »

A Christmas Story

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the season of Advent – which this year encompasses the four weeks leading up to December 25 – we’re looking at classic Christmas movies and how they might connect us to the miracle of God choosing to become a human being. When A Christmas Story opened in theaters at Thanksgiving in… Read more »