Brown's Daily Word - 12-23-14

Joy to the world!

 

    Praise the Lord that we get to celebrate the birth o our Lord and Savior one more time.  We get to worship.  We get to give.  We get to sing.  We get to receive.  We get to participate in this majestic and glorious event one more time.  We are getting ready for gatherings and fellowship and, best of all, for worship.  Those of you who live in the area join us in one one of the Christmas Eve services:

    4:30 PM  Wesley United Methodist Church. Candlelight  Christmas Eve service.  Yancey Moore will be leading music at the Organ and Piano.

   7:00 PM Union Center United Methodist Church. Candlelight Communion service.  Betty Phinney will be playing organ.  Our daughter Laureen will be accompanying at Piano.

   10:30 PM  Union Center Union Center United Methodist church.  Candlelight Communion service.  Aric Phinney will be at the piano.  Grant Degarmo and Mary Haskel will be leading the singing.

  

    Thank you for your Christmas love  and grace extended to us through your prayerful greetings and thoughts and Christmas greeting cards.  We have been blessed.  The Advent season has been to us truly a season of hope and blessing.  Praise the Lord for He invades this world with His Truth and grace. 

 

    In the story of "Chicken Little ", the chicken announces, "The sky is falling".  We have a more joyful announcement to make as we say to the world, "Jesus has come... and He is coming again".  All is well.  Come to Jesus and live.

 

    Sunita, Andy Gabe, and Laureen, all from Washington are coming home today. Jessica and Tom will be here at home on Christmas day.  Janice, Jeremy, Micah, Simeon, and Ada from Boston will be "Coming home for Christmas" on Christmas day.  Our "little India" family will come Christmas eve dinner.

 

   Praise the Lord for His Word.  Praise Him His mighty deeds.  Praise the Lord for His faithfulness.  Praise the Lord for the promise of  the Eternal city".

 

    To an open house in the evening
    Home shall men come,
    To an older place than Eden
    And a taller town than Rome.
    To the end of the way of the wandering star,
    To the things that cannot be and that are,
    To the place where God was homeless
    And all men are at home. G.K. Chesterton.

 

 

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.  Isaiah 9:6
" He is born the Holy Child"

 Brown

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