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Christmas Creativity: Three Ways To Fulfill Our Desire To Worship

Christmas Creativity: "All That I am and all that I have, I worship You, O Lord."

What do I love to do for Christmas?

  • Bake cookies
  • Make homemade bread
  • Tour neighborhoods that have Christmas displays
  • Write my annual Christmas letter
  • Select stamps with just the right Christmas theme
  • Choose Christmas cards with just the right message and picture.
  • Play piano solos of Christmas carols.

I even get a buzz out of signing my cards with a green ink pen. Okay, I’m weird. My husband acknowledged experiencing pleasure in finding images on the Internet to use in his creation of return address labels.

Have Jack and I forgot the reason for the season – that Jesus came to earth in human form as a helpless, obscure baby so that He could grow up and die for the sins of the world? [Read more…]

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God In The Fog: Four Ways You Can Persevere

God In The Fog - Four Ways to Persevere.How can you possibly persevere when a thick layer of fog covers your future?

Recently, I spoke to thirty-seven high school students at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) meeting about the What I Saw Today message. I told them how I was seeing wonderful things for the first time in my life and how simple, everyday things like dirt, stars in the sky, and flowerpots on front porches were exciting and fascinating.

In the middle of my talk, I asked the question, “Why did God make me wait 50 years? Why couldn’t he give me better vision right away?” [Read more…]

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Roseville Christian Church: A Shelter In the Time of Storm

The members of the Roseville Christian Church never anticipated that Sunday morning how God planned to use them in the midst of Winter Storm Bruce. Or of the national attention for what they did.

At 8:33 p.m. on November 25, 2018, Jeremy Wise, Roseville, Illinois Fire Chief called Jack Wingate, pastor of the Roseville Christian Church who also happens to be my husband. Winter Storm Bruce had already stirred up winds gusting to 45 miles per hour and dumped several inches of snow over the last three hours. Not knowing where else to go, the fire department had brought several stranded motorists to Casey’s, our local convenience store. Could they use the Roseville Christian Church as a shelter? [Read more…]

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How To Play UNO with a Deaf Person

Imagine the scene. One 14-year-old deaf boy who also can’t speak and has other health issues. One 30-year-old deaf woman who can read lips and knows sign language. One 60-something woman who is an interpreter for the deaf. And one 58-year-old visually impaired woman who doesn’t know sign language and can’t see the intricate detailed signing anyway.

All gathered around a table playing Uno. [Read more…]

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"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him."
- 2 Corinthians 2:14