Definition of Christmas

From the infamous Wikipedia…enjoy and Merry Christmas, Gary Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. The date of the celebration is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus’ birth with various secular customs, many of which have been [...]

The Gospel Of Luke

To start some more blogging on our site, I thought it would interesting to read what Wikipedia had to say about the Gospel of Luke we are studying. Here is what I found. The Gospel of Luke is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. [...]

Continue to be Good, Generous and Caring

I gave some thought to what could be shared in this blog format we have to keep it ongoing. I have had the following statement pinned next to my desk at work for a long time and thought I would share it.  Maybe you have some favorite statements, poems, etc. that you may want to [...]

Servanthood Leadership

Fellow Class Mates, I know many of you are in leadership positions, whether you admit it or not,  and I wanted to share the following email devotional I received with you. It summarizes servanthood leadership at its best.  Enjoy.   The qualifications for being a leader do not consist solely of sitting behind a desk and barking [...]

Day 38 – Sharing your faith

In this chapter the topic of Sharing your Faith is compared to going fishing.  Mathison uses a good illustration that a winning fisherman claimed his ability to win the fishing tournament was not because he was an expert at using the equipment or that he watched or studied the other fisherman but it was do to [...]

Day 22 – Maintaining Balance

Over the past three weeks we have read and learned about God’s love for us and how we should love others, prayers and praying, and learning about our church family and community. Those were pretty easy topics to read and follow. Why is it that my first turn at writing about the daily lesson has to [...]