Hanukkah and ChristmasClick here to read an article published by Religion Unplugged concerning Hanukkah and Christmas falling on the same day. Click here for a list of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day worship services. Hanukkah, with its various spellings, and Christmas fall on the same day this year, which is an unusual occurrence. Hanukkah, also is known as the Jewish Festival
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Following are some of the Christmas events that are coming in December. To add an event, send information to editor@spiritofabilene.com Our Savior Lutheran Church Living NativityOur Savior Lutheran Church, 4933 S. 7th St., will host a Living Nativity two nights, Dec. 19 and 20. Performances will be at 7 and 7:45 p.m. each night. Each performance is about 20 minutes
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By LORETTA FULTON Perhaps nothing illustrates the year 2020 like a group of volunteers, all wearing masks, standing in the cold to hand out Christmas packages to families in a drive-through line. Masks and drive-through lines, to avoid close contact, became the norm in 2020, the Year of COVID. As the year progressed, so did the number of cases and
Read moreBy JIM McDONALD The Bible is the infallible Word of The God of all things seen and unseen. This astonishing chronical encompasses the creation, the history of time and beyond. The Old Testament forecast the redemption narrative of God. There have been many gloomy times. In the darkest time of the year Jesus came to us at our level. This
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IDLE AMERICAN Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury The youngster, maybe 6-7 years of age, is on one of those “select” league baseball teams that may play four games or more on a single weekend during most months of the year. Sometimes, they fly commercially to tournaments, but so far, I haven’t heard of any teams chartering planes. But that’ll be
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By DANNY MINTON One of my favorite stories at Christmastime is “The Other Wise Man” by Henry van Dyke. It’s the story of Artaban, a man who studied the stars. He and his companions in the east had been studying the stars looking for a sign they had discovered in an ancient book. The sign would signify the birth of
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