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Christmas Traditions

If your family does not already have some Christmas traditions, let me recommend that you start some this year.  And in your traditions, don’t forget the “reason for the season”.  Quite often our family meets at an “away from home” site so our traditions have to be portable.  One year when we couldn’t find a Christmas Eve Service to attend in Myrtle Beach, we went back to the condo and did our own service.  This went so well that our youngest grandson planned a service for a couple of years in Orlando.  Everyone had a part either reading scripture or singing or playing Christmas music.  When we were early in our marriage and were able to make it from California to Mississippi, we always attended the Christmas Eve service at Harrisburg Baptist Church in Tupelo.  We have memories of communion where when everyone bit down on the “bread” it sounded like thunder.  Then there was the year that during the candle lighting part of the service a little boy got his candle too close

The Great Smoke Screen

Every day in the media we are apprised of some new allegation against a politician, athlete or Hollywood personality.  The public gets all up in arms and people take sides via social media.  In the meantime millions across the world are dying of starvation, diseases that could be curtailed and the violence of rampant dictators and movements.  Where is the outrage that people are dying without Christ and will spend eternity in Hell?  Where are the voices raised against the idolatry of modern man?  In some cases even the pulpit is silent. Everything that is wrong with the NFL, NBA, Major League baseball, college sports, Hollywood and Washington D. C. would be solved if Spiritual Renewal swept across America.  The epidemic of poverty and hunger in our nation would disappear if God ruled in the hearts of mankind.  The drug and alcohol problem would disappear if the Holy Spirit resided in the lives of people.  Yet we spend untold time, energy and money (over 3M spent by the special counsel