CELEBRATE!

"Cabo" 2014
(Beloved pet of our dear friends, Debora and Mark)

"Look! Striding across the mountains - 

a messenger bringing...good news: peace! 

A holiday...CELEBRATE! Worship and recommit to God!" 

(Nahum 1:15a The Message)

      At Christmas time, we deck the halls with boughs of holly, trim the trees with twinkling lights and shiny tinsel, and even don our dogs in red velvet ribbon because...

Once upon a Christmas far away in Bethlehem
Mary being great with child had no place to lie down
So Joseph found a stable in which Mary had her Child
Once upon a Christmas was the birth of Jesus Christ

Once upon a Christmas in manger far away
A King was born His palace was a manger filled with hay
His royal robe a swaddling cloth a halo was His crown
Once upon a Christmas away in Bethlehem

And all the world REJOICED because the King was born at last
A savior had been promised now it had come to pass
And the joyful news that He was born spread quickly
far and wide
Once upon a Christmas was the birth of Jesus Christ. 1


Beloved, may we never stop CELEBRATING the 
CHRIST of Christmas!

1 ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS. Dolly Parton, 1984.