My single friends, Merry Christmas! I hope you have been enjoying the holidays. Please enjoy your day today, wherever you are, whoever you are with. My gift to you today is the nativity story directly from scripture, in chronological order. Today’s scripture reading is from The Passion Version, taken from BibleGateway.com, but with footnotes removed…
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village as the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty and then for three years was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He…
It was an ordinary night, dark and quiet and clear. The dust-covered shepherds were standing around a small fire, talking about their day. They smelled like dirty sheep. As they talked, they looked around occasionally for wolves, thieves or other predators who might try to sneak into their sheepfold and steal some lambs. The oldest…
