Kathleen Alexander I recommend food — preparing it, sharing it, tucking gift cards from new or favorite restaurants into Christmas stockings (along with babysitting guarantees). Treats and time together are great gifts. But I am haunted by pictures of many flood and fire-ravaged communities, so this year I’m giving food though donations to World Central Kitchen. This … [Read more...] about Gift Ideas from Friends of TLC
Archives for December 10, 2018
Apollo 8 at 50: In the Beginning
By Mark W. Ohlemeier On Christmas Eve in 1968, three American astronauts became the first human beings to travel to another world. The Apollo 8 crew — Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders — had made the quarter-million-mile journey from Earth to the moon, a hazardous voyage through the deadly vacuum of space. Even though this mission would be overshadowed seven months … [Read more...] about Apollo 8 at 50: In the Beginning
12/16: A Beautiful New Being
3 Advent, December 16 Zeph. 3:14-20 • Cant. 9 • Phil. 4:4-7 • Luke 3:7-18 “John answered all of them by saying, ‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into … [Read more...] about 12/16: A Beautiful New Being