Thanksgiving Traditions
Published November 18, 2011What are your Thanksgiving traditions? Do you always make a pumpkin pie for dessert or gather around the TV and watch football? Do you always set your alarm for early Friday morning and catch the Black Friday sales? While these are all great traditions, they really don’t have anything to do with the real reason behind the holiday, which is to give thanks to our Heavenly Father. He has undoubtedly blessed you abundantly in ways that you may forget to acknowledge. Thanksgiving is a wonderful day to remember those blessings. As you sit down to the dinner table with family [...]
read moreA Special Mother’s Day
Published May 9, 2011With the beauty and joy of Mother’s Day still fresh in my mind, I am reminded that mothers everywhere share something truly special in common: the miracle of birth. Mothers are the givers of life without whom the world could not exist. As Pastor Tom shared with us in the sermon Sunday, Mary, mother of Jesus, was a woman who was blessed with incredible faith and strength. How many of us today would believe the incredible words an angel sent to tell us of the immaculate conception of a child we were to carry? How frightened Mary must have been, [...]
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