Home. No other word stirs our longings quite like it, especially at Christmas. While the temperature drops outside, a crackling fire and twinkling lights invite us to huddle with those we love most in all the world. We traditionally host friends for a night of goodies and games at Christmas, but this year we will love you best by NOT…
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Our family stopped exchanging Christmas gifts years ago, about the same time every store cranked up its mechanical Santa, swinging his hips to Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, in October. I snapped. Christmas made me cranky instead of merry. This year, however, I’m making an exception. Because, man, if we ever needed a little Christmas cheer, it’s 2020. And get…
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Even if I could ignore the red and gold leaves, the critters let me know when autumn has arrived. Every year, an epic battle ensues beneath the pecan trees outside my living room window. The crows squawk an awful complaint as they dive bomb the squirrels, who dash in to collect a nut almost before it hits the ground. It’s…
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A politically homeless pro-life Christian rejects the Republican party in favor of a vote for Joe Biden.
In Biblical times, the city wall was all that stood between residents and an invading army, so any breach in the wall left the the good citizens vulnerable to attack. Ezekiel 22 depicts God seeking a man who will stand in the gap and build up the broken wall, but he finds none. What a sad passage. Today, we are…
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