December 25, 2024
Merrily Making Memories
Mike Kennedy, a bi-vocational minister at Minnehaha Church of Christ in Vancouver, Washington, shares a Christmas memory and the value of holding on to those memories.
Articles for tag: Christmas Memory
December 24, 2024
Shifting into High Gear at Christmas
Steve Reeves, the minister of Spring Hill Church of Christ in Middletown, Ohio, recalls the Christmas gift of a motorcycle and how learning to ride it can reflect upon one's spiritual development.
December 23, 2024
The Donation of Life at Christmas
Rebekah Hannum, a missionary to Spain, recalls a Christmas gift of life from a friend who donated a kidney and a Christmas gift of life from Jesus.
December 22, 2024
The Day Before the Day
Church planter and minister Brent Bramer shares a memory from childhood of a family tradition that took place on Christmas Eve.
December 19, 2024
Christmas with Jim
Dr. Sara Fudge shares a Christmas memory about a time spent with her brother who had been away as a soldier in the Vietnam War.
December 25, 2022
A Block of Wood: A Reflection on Christmas, Expectations, and Gratitude
I don’t know what I was expecting. What lofty Christmas dreams did 3-year-old me cherish in my heart that would make the giant, handmade, wooden kitchen my grandfather lovingly built for weeks in his spare time seem like garbage on Christmas morning? Â
December 24, 2022
A ‘Frozen in Time’ Moment
"It was the winter of 1968, the break between semesters of my senior year in Bible college," Ken Idleman writes. "Kaylene and I had been married the previous August and had determined that we would spend our first Christmas together in the Holy Land . . ."
December 23, 2022
An Aluminum Tree, a Phonograph, and ‘Snowballs’
Christmas childhood memories can blur together, but one specific Christmas—I think it was 1966—certainly left a lasting impression. Â
December 22, 2022
‘All Is Well’
Christmas means many things to David Empson, with most of his thoughts centering on family gatherings and music. Â
December 21, 2022
‘It’s Christmas Time in the City’
"All my Christmas memories are framed by the city where I both spent my childhood and where my wife and I raised our daughter," Steve Carr shares in today's Christmas remembrance. "And for me, nothing says Christmas in Cincinnati like the live Nativity display at Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park."
December 20, 2022
The Christmas Program
In the 1996 Christmas program, Margie Redford's parents included a note to family members that encouraged them to "Greet each morning with this prayer: 'Lord, what are You and I going to do together today? I’m reporting for duty.'" The Christmas programs were a family Christmas tradition.
December 19, 2022
Giving vs. Exchanging
As much fun as it is to receive a gift, please consider that Jesus taught that giving a gift is even better, Jeff Stone writes in our second of eight daily Christmas essays. Giving is greater than exchanging.Â
December 18, 2022
An Unprompted Carol Sing at Disney
That night at that Disney amphitheater, Arron Chambers recalls, "I witnessed the uncontainable joy Dad had for Jesus and all things Christmas." (This is the first of eight Christmas reflections Christian leaders will be sharing in the days leading up to the celebration of our Lord's birth.)
