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The great christmas gift exchange.
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9 Dec 2008Each December holiday season a competitive, calculating sport plays out in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and office parties across America.
The great Christmas gift exchange.
This is the game of trading up gifts you have received.
The short version of this is played at a party, usually called “White Elephant Gifts” or “Dirty Santa”, where you must pick a [...]
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‘Twas the nightmare before christmas.
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5 Dec 2007‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all thru the earth, every creature was stirring, beneath the sad curse.
Our burdens and sorrows were hung in despair, in hopes a deliverer might someday care.
The orphans lay sleepless all night on their beds, while visions of family eluded their heads.
And I in my sorrow, my friends in their [...]
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The road to bethlehem.
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28 Nov 2007The road to Bethlehem from Nazareth is about 60 miles.
The road to Bethlehem from heaven was a million miles of God’s love and sacrifice.
Scripture gives us the travelogue of God’s journey to redeem His creatures.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, [...]
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The history of Christmas.
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1 Nov 2006A search on the history of the Christmas holiday yields this timeline…
The earliest Christians do not appear to have commemorated the nativity, but only the baptism and resurrection of Christ and the deaths of the martyrs.
Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD
137 AD - the Bishop of Rome ordered the [...]
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