December 1, 2007
The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christ is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world.
Stuart Briscoe
Telling The Truth
December 2, 2007
God is everywhere. His truth and his love pervade all things as the light and the heat of the sun pervade our atmosphere. But...God does not touch our souls with the fire of supernatural knowledge and experience without Christ.
Thomas Merton
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One-Rehearsal Christmas Plays: The Easiest Christmas Plays Ever! By Kendra Smiley This book is the answer to gaining an extra hour or two, feeling less harried and focusing on Christ while directing the church Christmas program! With One Rehearsal Christmas Plays, your Sunday school department will encourage, entertain, and enlighten the congregation as they follow the "Footsteps to the Manger" or as they present a slightly altered version of "T'was the Night before Christmas." One Rehearsal Christmas Plays features these productions and ten others with a Scriptural message and minimal preparation. Inside you'll find:
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December 3, 2007
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
Richard Sibbes
Brief Biography and Article
December 4, 2007
If you have a murmuring spirit, you cannot have true cheerfulness; it will generally show up in your countenance and your voice. Some little fretfulness or restlessness of tone will betray it. Your cheerfulness is forced, it does not spring up freely and healthily our of your heart, which it can only do when that is truly at rest in God; when you are satisfied with His ways, and wishing no change in them.
Anonymous
December 5, 2007
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
Francis Fenelon Biography
December 6, 2007
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas a Kempis Biography And Works
December 7, 2007
Commercialization has obscured the meaning of Christmas. The commercial has become more important than the carol. What man has to sell more important than what God has given.
Anonymous
December 8, 2007
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
December 9, 2007
Contemplative prayer is to read with special attention to the Gospel. It is often helpful to take one sentence or word that offers special comfort and repeat it a few times so that the whole content can be brought to mind and allowed slowly to descend from the mind into the heart.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
December 10, 2007
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
Symeon
Biography
December 11, 2007
Repentance is being sorry enough not to do it again. Repentance is an action for keeps.
Paul White
December 12, 2007
Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things - ignorance, alcohol, passion, presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
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Journey to Bethlehem--Advent Wreath Holiday holiness for church or home. Elegant and sturdy gold-tone finish resin base includes brass candle cups and 10" Advent tapers. Diameter measures 10.5". More Christian Christmas Themed Ideas |
December 13, 2007
Charles Spurgeon was once asked, "How do you defend the Bible?" "Very easy" he responded. "The same way I defend a lion. I simply let it out of its cage."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
December 14, 2007
I think that the true meaning of Christmas is about possibility. It is not the kind of possibility that comes from a confidence in our own skill, knowledge, ability, or a positive mental attitude. It is possibility that comes solely from the fact that God is God, and that he is the kind of God who comes into our own human existence to reveal himself and call us to himself.©2003
Dennis Bratcher
The Christian Resource Institute
December 15, 2007
He became like us that He might make us like Him.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And List Of Works
December 16, 2007
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
December 17, 2007
Just when the truth about life sinks in, his truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max Lucado
Upwords
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Banners for Worship By Carol Harms "From the Publisher:" Explains the basic information and techniques to prepare banners from start to finish. Beautiful banners truly enhance the inside of every sanctuary. Learn how to make attractive banners yourself. Both the novice and experienced banner maker will benefit from the handy guidelines and clever techniques developed especially for this book. Banners of Worship explains all the basic information and techniques necessary for preparing banners from start to finish. You'll find 100 banner designs with guidelines for selecting colors. This book offers six complete alphabet patterns and design tips for the composition of art, words, and letters. Plus a special index of banner designs can help you find the right banner for a particular Sunday or occasion. Variety in the complexity of the designs allows anyone to attempt making a banner. Banner designs and instruction thorough enough for a beginner, yet flexible enough to allow experienced banner makers to create banners using personal designs. Start making your own banners with Banners for Worship and its companion packet, Banner Patterns for Worship, which provides six beautiful patterns drawn full size for easy banner making. |
December 18, 2007
In this new community where Christ is head, things are different. Here people are less concerned with finding their life than with losing it for Christ. Here meekness, not muscle, is the mark of greatness. If the church is not radically different from the world, something is radically wrong. To be salt and light in the world implies a marked contrast between the way of life in the world and the way of life in the church.
Anonymous
December 19, 2007
All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. When Hudson Taylor was once asked what was the greatest incentive to missionary work, he instantly replied, "Love of Christ." William Booth's passion for helping the underprivileged, the derelicts of society, and for world evangelization was built upon his passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!
Wesley L. Duewel
Brief Biography
December 20, 2007
During Advent opportunities for works of charity abound calling out for Christians from every side: a sack of food for a needy family, money dropped in a Salvation Army kettle, a donation to an Indian school, a toy for 'Toys-for-Tots,' etc. Unfortunately, these works of charity so easily can assuage the Christian conscience, while doing nothing to being about a solution to the root causes of the problem.
Brian Cavanaugh
December 21, 2007
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
December 22, 2007
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
John W Rice
Website
December 23, 2007
Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
December 24, 2007
Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, Simeon and old Anna, and the Magi all looked upon the babe and he melted their hearts. Jesus was a saviour born, the prince of peace and God with us. Let him melt your heart this Christmas.
John Reed
J. Reed's Christian Expositions
December 25, 2007
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
George W. Truett
December 26, 2007
Christmas is not about a certain day, December 25th, or how our houses look, or how nice the gifts are that we receive. Christmas is about the truth of Christ being born in your heart, and the fact that truth is to be carried in your heart all year long. One month from today, the trappings of Christmas will be gone from our retail stores, and the endless versions of Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer will be gone from our radio programming. Our beautiful poinsettias will be leaf-less and wilted. The wrapping paper on our gifts will be in our trash cans and our streets will be littered with old, brittle, dead trees. If those trappings of Christmas are for you, the true meaning of the life of the Savior, then your Christian faith is of little value to your ultimate salvation.
Anonymous
December 27, 2007
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.
G. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Biography
December 28, 2007
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
A Short Biography
December 29, 2007
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
A. W. Tozer
The Works Of A. W. Tozer
December 30, 2007
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
December 31, 2007
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
November 2007 / January 2008
