Category: Christmas Countdown

• Putting Christmas Away

  

  For the first time ever, I was glad to say goodbye to Christmas. Usually, I delay putting away all our family’s Christmas decorations and lights, waiting until at least the new year, maybe pushing it out yet another week. I love everything about Christmas!  But this year, I was ready to move on. Have you…

  Jill Cobb

  January 5, 2023

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Faith, Family

  Christmas, decorations, Gabriel, God with us, goodbye, Immanuel, Isaiah, Jesus, kidney stone, Mary, New Years, put away, surgery, unexpected

• The Cross in Christmas

  Our Christmas season has taken us through incredibly busy weeks, school programs and parties, dance rehearsals and recitals, and church commitments. But, none of those scheduled appointments makes Christmas, well, Christmas. As we’ve worked through our annual Christmas Countdown using The Family Book of Advent, one devotion last week brought Christmas into perspective for me in…

  Jill Cobb

  December 23, 2015

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Christmas star, cross, frankincense, God made flesh, gold, Magi, manger, myrrh, nativity, sacrifice, Wisemen