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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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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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Bathroom Evangelism: Six Ways to Connect With People Who Aren’t Like You

Connection Points: 6 ways to approach people who are not like me.Our church after school program for kids had a problem.

Kids exploded into the gym with unbounded energy and exited the doors as fast as they entered to roam the prohibited hallways with the ever-ready excuse, “I need to go to the bathroom.” One afternoon, a trail of children careened past me. “WALK!” I ordered. They glared at me. Great. How could I connect with kids who saw me more as a prison matron than the kindly wife of the senior minister? [Read more…]

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Life Foundation: House of Cards or Solid Ground?

How solid is your foundation?

My husband and I visited our daughter and son-in-love over the Labor Day weekend in North Carolina. I love their rental house! If you asked me to draw a floor plan of my ideal home, this would be it. A spacious kitchen, a separate breakfast nook, a formal dining room, a den and a formal living room, with bedrooms down a hall and a walk-in closet in the master bedroom. The best part was a wide house-length front porch. A small deck overlooked a sloping backyard. The house foundation reaches into the side of a hill with the house half-way down the slope and a grove of trees at the bottom of the hill.

Therein lays the problem. [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