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Christmas: not just your ordinary shepherds and lambs
Until recently, I had spent a lifetime not knowing that the Bethlehem shepherds were not just ordinary shepherds. And the lambs they raised were not just ordinary lambs. At least, the first-born males...
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Hallelujah Chorus flashmob at Macy’s
What happened when a flashmob – actually the Opera Company of Philadelphia – burst into song at Macy’s department store? Story within article from To The Source on the Madness of Materialism: shoppers...
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Evangelism at Christmas
Digital can enhance the ways we share the good news in a Christmas context: OurChurch blog post explains 25 ways to promote your church’s Christmas service with social media. Web evangelist Rusty...
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Looking back at Christmas
Mary (Tatiana Maslany) and Joseph (Andrew Buchan) welcome a new arrival. BBC. The BBC 4-part serial Nativity aired in the week before Christmas to wide acclaim. If it was not screened in your country,...
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Creative Christmas presentations and resources
Please share… Creative ways of telling the Christmas story… here’s the winning entry by beat-boxing minister Gavin Tyte to the UK TV’s ITN Nativity Factor video clip competition: Natwivity If you are...
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Christmas according to Peanuts. And puppets
Takes you back? Peanuts for ever! Nice. Followed by the Christmas story, sung by puppets to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody, called, err, Bethlehemian Rhapsody… Watch at YouTube: Watch on GodTube:...
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The thin space of Christmas
Please share widely: In the Celtic Christian tradition, ‘thin spaces’ are times and places where the spiritual and the natural world intersect – occasions when it is possible to reach out and be...
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Christmas – not too late to use outsider-friendly pages and videos in your...
Christmas represents an incredible opportunity to dialogue with outsiders, both as a part of church’s digital strategy, and for individual online Jesus-followers. It’s not too late to plan and use the...
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A new (to me) Christmas folk story from Germany and Ukraine. About spiders!
Out in a small town the other day, I stumbled upon a one-day Christmas market, and some hand-crafted glass jewelry caught my eye. Or, more specifically, beautiful hand-made spiders about 3 inches/8cms...
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Using powerful online opportunities before Christmas
I‘ve had to switch radio stations more than once recently, to avoid wall-to-wall Christmas music starting right at the beginning of December. Too much, too soon! But, out in cyberworld, many millions...
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