Tag: Christmas
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Keeping Christ in Christmas in an Incarnational Way
“Keep Christ in Christmas” is a phrase many Christians repeat this time of year. It often comes from a real concern that Christmas is being emptied of its meaning. Yet the phrase itself raises an important question. Are we talking about preserving a name and a set of symbols, or about embodying the life of…
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Happy Groundhog Day
Well… sort of. While the sheer absurdity of watching a groundhog predict the weather is certainly an amusing distraction (which I thoroughly enjoy), February 2 is also a lesser-known day in the liturgical calendar—Candlemas. Candlemas occurs forty days after Christmas and marks the official end of the Christmas season. It goes by several names: the…
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Created All Things
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,…
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Christmas 2020
And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38 2020 was a year that no one expected, planned for, or wanted. No one planned for mass unemployment, thousands of people dead from a global pandemic, heightened racial tensions, murder hornets, snake infested…
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Christmas: Do Not Fear
And ye, beneath life’s crushing load, whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow, look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing! – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, vs 3 The…
Joshua Strickler 