30
Nov
Posted by Chris in church, culture. Tagged: advent, Christmas, conspiracy. 3 Comments
UPDATE: my friend Chris Barras leads the Area 10 Church in Richmond and is actually going to be doing a series of messages (11/30, 12/07, 12/14, 12/21) on just this topic! Awesome… and the audio should be available online here afterwards…
I don’t get the whole term ‘advent’. It just speaks to me as one of [...]
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29
Nov
Posted by Chris in family, poor. Tagged: Christmas, clubhouse, fall, family, pictures, thanksgiving, treehouse. 4 Comments
What happened? Now I know it’s somewhat warm (40-50 degrees right now) and we’re still going to go outside like we’ve been doing, but geez. I’m not ready for the winter. Ah well; it doesn’t work that way, does it?
We barely took many pictures this fall, but if you click on the picture below you’ll [...]
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17
Dec
Posted by Chris in culture, youtube. Tagged: Christmas, debt, shopping, spending. 2 Comments
Ah the joys of Christmas! Well not really, because I’m really talking about the shopping…. and we all know that Christmas isn’t about shopping, right? RIGHT?
Last week we finished the stuff (we mostly didn’t buy but more just made ourselves) for family and finally mailed it all out on Saturday (and due to mailing costs, [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by Chris in Everything Else, culture, family, poor. Tagged: alternative gifts, Buy Nothing Christmas, Christmas, fair trade, gifts, recycled. 2 Comments
Amazing how quickly it always comes that the topic of Christmas (and for most, the buying that goes with it) is already being discussed. The good thing is that the context in which I read about it (“Buy Nothing Christmas” by Growing Up in Church) is about NOT BUYING. This Buy Nothing Christmas thing is [...]
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