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Category: advent

  • sweet…

    Is it just me, or is ‘Twinkle Twinkle little star’ putting in a lot of appearances in children’s nativity plays? I think it’s because it’s a rhyme that little children know and it probably also provides a good number of additional parts for children (as twinkling stars) – you can only have so many sheep…

  • glow in the dark (day 15)

    Facebook friends of mine may already have seen this picture. It’s of our new Christmas lights. We wanted to be festive and decorate the front of our house while at the same time not wanting to go overboard, not wanting to fill the garden with flashing Santas*, light-up reindeer, snowmen, and so on. We wanted…

  • o come o come Immanuel

    (This bloggage was sent around the EBA Ministers as a ‘Thought for the week’ last week.) This is the time of year when we sing the Advent carol ‘O come, O come Immanuel’. The words are lovely, helping us capture a sense of the mind-set of those who were waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for…

  • Twelve

    Twelve days of Christmas Twelve months in a year Twelve hours in a morning (or afternoon) Twelve is the highest single-syllable number (go on, count them all and try it!) Twelve is magnesium in the periodic table Twelve tribes of Israel Twelve disciples of Jesus Twelve used to be a substitute in football (the proper…

  • Immanueleven

    One of the names we use for Jesus, especially at the time of Advent, is ‘Immanuel’. It is a Hebrew word that means ‘God with us’. There are two parts to the name: ‘Immanu’ from which we get ‘immanent’ and ‘El’ which is ‘God’. Let me illustrate. A number of years ago we went as…

  • the TEN-sion mounts…*

    It is 3000AD and there is an opportunity to end the war that had seemed like it had lasted forever. A commando was needed to go into the dangerous and hostile enemy-occupied territory. The Commander-in-Chief needed to send someone they could trust, someone brave, someone who was willing to risk everything for the sake of the…

  • danger

    The internet is a dangerous place. Not because of the scams that are out to ensnare the unwary, the pornography that seems to be everywhere, the emails that offer medical assistance or opportunities to receive millions of pounds from complete strangers if I give them my bank details. Although those (and others) do make the…

  • adventions

    Advent already! The season of small pieces of chocolate hidden behind cardboard doors has arrived. It’s amazing how many different sorts of advent calendar there are – themed with everything from pop stars to children’s TV characters, passing through nature scenes and Father Christmases on the way. All of them have the same purpose –…