To All, I am sorry I did not tell you earlier this weekend that I will not be posting an article today due to the Christmas holiday. Hopefully, you had a fun and joyful weekend filled with family, friends, food, and fellowship. I plan to have something for next weekend, so please return Sunday for…
Get Engaged This Christmas!
This past week was a very different week for me, but in a good way. I was engaged more than usual. My birthday was last week, and I feel like I have been celebrating for the entire week. It’s unusual for me. This is how my week went: For starters, I’m in an informal birthday…
Ten Ways for Single Christians to Worship During this Holiday Season
Today, the day I posted this blog article, is 14 days–exactly two weeks–from Christmas. Are you busy yet? How much are you giving, spending, eating, running, partying, frolicking, and exhausting yourself? Is the Christmas season going too fast for you? I’m trying to take my own advice and pace myself (see the meme I crafted…
Unlikely Ambassadors
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…
Let the Fun Begin! 32 Personal Holiday Questions
32 Christmas Holiday Self-Questions (one for each day from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas) for Single Christians to answer, copy, paste, and circulate for fun! To see my answers, you’ll have to go to my blog’s Facebook page! Favorite Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner side dish (not main meat or dessert!): Favorite Christmas scripture: Do…
Avoid The National Pastime and Become Stars Lighting Up the Sky
You hold the door open for the person behind you. They walk through, stone-faced, and say nothing. You return something that the owner dropped. They say “Oh” and walk away, checking it out to make sure it didn’t break. You let someone cut in front of you on the freeway. No nod, no wave, no…
2016 Top 25 Holiday Tips & Hacks for Christian Singles
Instead of writing on “spiritual” stuff this weekend, with our Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve holidays fast approaching, I thought I’d give you a few holiday tips & hacks instead. Tips and reminders to make our holidays healthier, happier, simpler. Just for us single Christians. I looked for some feeder articles to start my…
Can You Hear Me Now?
It’s Friday night. I’m at a retreat center up in the mountains in Southern California with a bunch of single Christians. All ages are present, but it’s mostly the “older crowd.” All colors, all backgrounds, came together. We ate dinner and did ice breakers and worshiped and received an awesome, reality-based teaching from our first…
Hey! Christian Single! What Are You Doing With All That Freedom?
For those of you Christian singles who are from the United States of America, Belarus, Burundi, Canada, Rwanda, and Somalia, Happy Independence Day this first weekend of July! I know that many other countries celebrate a similar national holiday; in Mexico, it is September 16, and in Australia, it is January 26. Norway celebrates its…
If You Didn’t Have a Great Father
(I apologize for this very late post. I’d lost my phone for two days and was unable to log into my hosting site. Everything else still applies!) If you are a father and/or your dad is still alive, congratulations. Happy Father’s Day! If you are a single dad, raising your children, a major Shout Out…