In the television drama The Waltons, grandparents Zeb and Esther lived with their son, daughter-in-law, and seven grandchildren as the family struggled in the grips of the Great Depression. The family had little in the way of worldly goods, but they had a bond of love and support for one ...
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In our family there are many stories and memories about Christmases past. With my father now gone, I remember these treasured tales with the start of every holiday season. Born just three months before the stock market’s great crash in 1929, my father spent his early years on a northern ...
Read More »Our Gift to the Unbeliever
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born into an impoverished English family in 1812. One of eight children in the Dickens Family, his father was a naval clerk who fancied becoming a rich man. It was a dream ...
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No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 Christmas is that time of year when we extend our hearts to the less fortunate in our communities, often helping strangers in tangible and loving ways. It is also a time ...
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Virginia’s question was an honest one: “Is there a Santa Claus?” The editor of the New York Sun during that Christmas season in 1897 was tasked with answering the young girl so influenced by her doubting friends that she had been compelled to put the question to her local newspaper. ...
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