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It Is Finished…Well Almost

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The Christmas Holiday is upon us! My work for Christmas 2014 is almost done. I have sung my concerts. I have wrapped my gifts. I have bought our movie tickets for tomorrow. I have purchased the groceries for our Christmas meals. It is finished…well almost. Now all I have to do is walk through it. Here are some photos of our Christmas ministries this year.

 

 

The carolling teams converge
We gather to encourage one another
The happy angel
Donna Marshall and the women’s ministry of Bread of Life made a fabulous meal!
And a Partridge In A Pear Tree

I won’t be publishing tomorrow as it is Christmas Day. But please tune in on boxing Day to read my new flash fiction piece, The Steps of Laska.

 

 

Two Down Three To Go!

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With Christmas just a week away I am in full-blown concert season. My first Christmas worship session was last week at our annual Special Touch REACH New England Christmas Party. It was a great day enjoyed by about 50 disabled individuals and their caregivers. What a privilege to serve these folks!

Setting up registration
Donna Marshall and the women’s ministry of Bread of Life made a fabulous meal!
The happy angel

Today I was able to bring communion and Christmas  music out to the Gardner Visiting Nurses Dayhab program. This is one of three off-campus services our church has the good fortune to be involved in.

Tomorrow night  we are sending out four caroling teams across the country-side to sing songs of the season. It’s just not Christmas without the music!

Just For Me Not For Thee

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The Daily Post has asked, “What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received that you wouldn’t give to anyone else? Why don’t you think it would apply to others?”

You can find out how others responded by going to
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/not-for-thee/

I suppose it is not JUST for me but I definitely know it’s not for everyone. The best piece of advice I ever received came directly from God and it was the call from Him to become a full-time minister of the gospel.

Ministry is not just a job. It’s a calling, which is to say it is not what I do but what I am. The line between working in ministry and being a full-time minister is drawn when ministry stops being something you do and becomes something you are. I could no more stop being a minister than I could stop being a white guy. At this point in my life it has less to do with my particular job than it does with how I go about my particular job. It ain’t for everyone because it ain’t who everyone is.
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Prophetical-Priestly Quotes 8

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“My core fear is that we are, as a culture, as a species, becoming shallower, that we have turned from depth-from the Judeo-Christian premise of unfathomable mystery- and we are adapting ourselves to the ersatz security of a vast lateral connectedness. That we are giving up on wisdom, the struggle for which has for millennia been central to the very idea of culture, and that we are pledging instead to a faith in the web.” Sven Birkerts