Line Upon Line

The Christmas holidays offer a time for reflection, celebration, and fellowship with family and friends. But they can easily become busy and stressful, too.

You might want to visit CBN's Christmas webpage to keep 'the reason for the season' in focus.

There's a lot of great information and inspiration there -- including stories behind some of the most beloved Christmas hymns and carols, such as this one for Silent Night! Holy Night!.

If you ever travel to Michigan, be sure to stop by Bronner's, the world's largest Christmas store in Frankenmuth, and visit a replica of the original memorial chapel in Oberndorf, Austria which was built on the site of St. Nicholas Church.

St. Nicholas is the church where "Silent Night" was first sung.

May the peace and joy of that first Christmas night, live in your heart and your home!

think on these things...

Matthew 1:18-21 (NLT)
Now this is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, her fiance', being a just man, decided to break the engagement quietly, so as not to disgrace her publicly.

As he considered this, he fell asleep, and an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," the angel said, "do not be afraid to go ahead with your marriage to Mary. For the child within her has been conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."