I think it’s possible that Christmas is my favorite time year. It generally speaking finds most people in good moods and who doesn’t love Christmas parties? The season is kicked off with thanksgiving and it’s just an accepted thing that the next 40 some days will be filled with food and people. Love it! But I think other than the food, presents, decorations and all the other traditional Christmas stuff that goes on, this is by far the most creative time of the year. I think even the commercials on tv are better during the Christmas season. Everyone is trying to figure out how to stand out and not be forgotten durning a season of many distractions. Not only is this true in the corporate world, but it’s true of the church world as well. That’s why we do Christmas programs and have special music. It’s Christmas time and we need to bring something extra. I love what North Point church did this last week to bring the special sauce to their service…

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I love what these guys did to help their church be creative this Christmas season! What creative ideas do you have to help your church do something awesome this year? Go get involved!!!

p.thad

What a crazy time we live in. I find it interesting to see how life changes not only from year to year and day to day, but even from hour to hour. I’ve only been 30 for a week now and it’s settling in nicely. I’m not sure how it happened but I’ve had to shave more in this last week than it seemed like I did in the whole of last month. Ok now on to some real content. I’ve made the comment to myself to read through the whole bible in 90 days. Thanks to youversion reading plan. Go here to check it out. The last 2 days I’ve been in Exodus. I almost couldn’t believe what I was reading when it got to part were Moses was laying down the “rules” by witch they were to live by.  As I looked at it from our “modern” mind set it seems impossible to live up to the standard that was set. I couldn’t help but be so thankful for grace. But as I thought about it more it brought up some questions about society. After reading the penalties for some what we would call crime, it’s no wonder people back then were not career criminals. So this makes me think, are we to soft today? I put a tweet (follow me) out there about this earlier this week and got some interesting feedback. In Moses day if you stole something and got caught red handed, you were stoned. One guy on twitter said he would attend a public stoning with his kids and tell them this is what happens if your noddy! Would we have a better country to live in if we went back to the rules of Moses day? Go read Exodus 21 & 22 it will take less than 5 mins. then comment about what you would keep and what you would change from Moses day. GO….