Birth Forgotten?

 The forgetting of Jesus’ birth

A dreadful pandemic; a deadly plague. (One of the deadly plagues.) A plague about 1,800 years ago.

Mary - Joseph - Jesus - Shepherds. Magi

At that time

Nope! That is not really the story. Read it here.

Jesus, The Good (?) [?]

I think we all heard stories of brave heroines and heroes who had to undertake an enormous challenge, to achieve something big, or something impossible, to complete a great task, if they were to gain..... 

Hear God's trumpet

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

The Heart

Heart issues?

Non-Voter Escape! (Edited3)

I noted the early figures showing a lot (many millions) of USA non-voters. That is in addition to so many millions of USA citizens unregistered!

It will be some time before the final actual vote numbers from the big 2024 election over there are known. Interest will soon fade. Eventually their Census people will have the data - unless it gets shut down!

Halloween?

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Some readers may find the free "Light Party" resource from Scripture Union UK valuable.

The resource is copyright, or I would reproduce some of it here (see below).

https://content.scriptureunion.org.uk/halloween

The SU (UK) resource has a particular purpose and intended audience. That is made plain at the outset.

The cover tells me:

• Your questions about Halloween answered
• How to run a light party
• Games and activities
• Light experiments
• Creative prayer ideas

From the contents I noticed:

Page 8 "Halloween and the 95" has discussion of the origin and meaning.

Page 10 "Talking about darkness"

Page 12 "Questions about halloween"

Page 14 "Engaging with the Bible"

There are many practical activity ideas, which are, of course, geared towards the interest(s) of children.

Disclaimer: I have never myself used this resource (nor any other on Halloween) and have nil actual background in the topic.

These days it might not be possible for people with young children to fail to notice what is going on in the community. I see the attempt by SU (and others) to address the matter as commendable and useful.

My own grumpy inclination has been to ignore this modern Halloween phenomenon. I see the observance as a (another) failed attempt to legislate "Christianity" on to more ancient religious ideas. 

According to SBS News, commerce was anticipating a 2024 spend of $450,000,000 in Australia, so I think the event is here to stay.

What do you think? 

May God bless you
and especially any young people who look to you
Allen Hampton