Tag: nativity

• Why We Need Christmas

  The day after Thanksgiving, our family got out our Christmas decorations, put up the tree, hung our stockings, and even set up lights in front of our house. It’s officially the Christmas season, and it couldn’t have come at a better time! We were certainly not the first to dig out our Christmas tubs and…

  Jill Cobb

  November 28, 2020

  Christmas, Family

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• 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

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