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“What lifestyle habits will nourish your spiritual health in the coming year?” David Faust asks. “Here are some tips I have discovered. . . .”
Dec. 31 Application | ‘It’s Time for Some Soul Food’
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Dec. 31 | Discovery Questions
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These Discovery Questions are for use with this week’s Lookout Bible Lesson, “I Am the Bread of Life” (5-40), by Mark Scott.
The One Thing They Couldn’t Steal
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Today, in the final of six Christmas memories that Christian leaders so generously shared with us this season, Christian writer and speaker Seana Scott describes how her family tried to make the best of a nightmare situation. Merry Christmas to all!
‘The Spirit of Christmas Eve’ (1906)
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In this excerpt from a 1906 essay, Anna D. Bradley responded to a correspondent who contended that Christmas Day was “handed down from heathendom.” . . .
Christmas: Good News for All People
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In today’s penultimate Christmas memory, Team Expansion president Doug Lucas describes a scene during a bus ride that opened his eyes in a new way to the great need for Christ around the world. . . .
Recalling the All-Dorm Christmas Celebrations at CCU’s Restoration Hall
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In today’s Christmas memory, Christian educator Rick Cherok reflects on Christmas celebrations at Cincinnati Christian University’s Restoration Hall, where he was resident director for 13 years.
‘Born that Man No More May Die’
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Christian college professor Genilyn McCaffrey starts her Christmas memory by writing, “As a preacher’s kid whose dad also happened to direct the church choirs, I spent the Sundays before Christmas in kids’ choir practices and waiting around for the adult rehearsals to finish. . . .”
THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘Christmas at Simeon’s House’ (1978)
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“We need to share Simeon’s experience,” Editor Sam Stone wrote in 1978. “We need to see the Lord this Christmas. Simply hearing of the infant in a manger is not enough, however. We must look with the eye of faith to Calvary, knowing that there He died for us.” . . .
News Briefs for Dec. 20
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Briefs from ICOM, Orchard Group, Kentucky Christian University, Great Lakes Christian College, Johnson University, and more . . .