Opossum Screed: Merry Christmas, Neighbor

December 22, 2018

Merry Christmas, Neighbor, from the cast of Bonanza

Advent 1 Worship

Today is the First Sunday of Advent, a season of four Sundays during which we prepare for the birth of Christ. Though we do sing some Christ...
Thanksgiving Confession

He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? ✙ Psalm 94:9 ✙ Jesus talked about prayer quite a bit in ...
Advent Candles

Advent begins tomorrow. We'll light a candle each Sunday representing (in order): Hope Peace Joy Love
Thanksgiving Day

In you the orphan finds mercy. ✙ Hosea 14:3 ✙ Today is Thanksgiving, when we celebrate all that God has done for us through the remembrance...
A Magnificent Work

Let your steadfast love become my comfort according to your promise to your servant. ✙ Psalm 119:76 ✙ One of the unsung heroes of the story...
Like a Shepherd, Lead Us

Moses said to God, “If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from here." ✙ Exodus 33:15 ✙ Savior, like a shepherd lead us, m...
Re-Directed to God

My times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors. ✙ Psalm 31:15 ✙ The scriptures tell us to trust God. The...

⚃ Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, by Anne Lamott (2016)
⚄ At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon (1994)
⚅ Dearest Milton James, by N.R. Walker (2021)
⚄ Farmer in the Sky, by Robert Heinlein (1950)
⚃ The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too), by Gretchen Rubin (2017)
⚀ Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger (2003)
⚄ Green Rider (Book 1), by Kristen Britain (2012)
⚅ Home Stretch, by Graham Norton (2021)
⚄ Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, by Christopher Clark
⚄ The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, by John McWhorter (2014)
⚀ A Little History of Religion, by Richard Holloway (2016)
⚄ Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (2009)
⚄ The Orphan Keeper, by Camron Wright (2016)
⚂ The Rational Bible: Genesis, by Dennis Prager (2019)
⚃ The Strangler Vine: Blake & Avery Book 1, by M.J. Carter (2015)
⚅ The Wizard's Butler, by Nathan Lowell (2020)

Sam Greening: I'm a pastor serving a UCC/DOC partnership congregation in the Western Reserve.

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