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Confession

Posted in Television on December 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I have a confession to make. 
I really enjoy the holiday movies on the Hallmark Channel and Lifetime.  I really, really do. Not the Lifetime movies about abuse or abandonment or tragedy. The "holiday" romance movies.  The Christmas "feel-good" movies where boy and girl get together at the end or a new family is created [...]

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Friday Five: Holiday Food

Posted in Memes on December 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

1. Favorite cookie/candy/baked good without which, it’s just not Christmas.
My mother’s Mamie Eisenhower Christmas cookies. Iced, decorated and waiting for me each year.  Can’t have Christmas without them.
2. Do you do a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, both, or neither? (Optional: with whom will you gather around the table this year?)
My family gathers [...]

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Friday Five: Yuletide Thoughts

Posted in Memes on December 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »

For this mid-December Friday Five, let’s explore some Yuletide favorites.
1) It’s a Wonderful Life–Is it? Do you remember seeing it for the first time?
Okay, I know this admission will make me seem very unAmerican or inhumane or something but I have not actually seen "It’s a Wonderful Life".  I’m sure "It’s a Wonderful Movie" but [...]

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Puppy Ownership

Posted in Youth Ministry on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

In a very ironic turn of events, I own a puppy.  (Don’t freak out, Mom and Dad.) I technically own the puppy but I don’t possess the puppy.  Long story….. ready?
Monday one of my youth boys calls me and tells me he and some friends are at the local animal shelter.  He is adopting a [...]

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Weddings and Such

Posted in Ministry on December 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Saturday I officiated at my third wedding.  The wedding of two good friends.  The wedding of one faithful blog reader.  So, Preston, here it is for you:  Congratulations, dear friend!  Thank you for allowing me to share in you and Amy’s special day.  It was a honor and a pleasure to be there for the [...]

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Winter is Here!

Posted in Miscellaneous on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Winter came last night with a grand entrance.  We woke up to 12 – 14 inches of snow. Just two days ago we were enjoying rare 70 degree temps.  Now, we are bundled up like Randy from A Christmas Story.  I spent 3 hours shoveling my sidewalk and driveway.  Still a good chunk of ice [...]

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