Greetings! Today is the Fourth Day of Christmas.  According to Wikipedia, it is also Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents.  The article I linked to says it is in commemoration of the Massacre of the Innocents which was when Herod killed all the boy children two years and under in Bethlehem after the Magi [...]

Today is the Third Day of Christmas.  It is also the Feast of St. Stephen or St. Stephen’s Day according to the Eastern Church.  But the Western Church celebrates it on December 26, which was yesterday.  However, yesterday I was blogging about Boxing Day, which is a holiday that people I know celebrate.  I don’t [...]

Today is the fourth and last Sunday of Advent.  Christmas is almost upon us.  For four weeks we have waited for this day.  We started out with Hope.  We started out remembering our sins and our need for a Savior and the prophecies to the People of God telling them that God would send them [...]

This is the third week of Advent.  This Sunday is sometimes also called Gaudete Sunday because the first word of the latin liturgy is gaudete, which is translated: Rejoice.  The theme of this Sunday is joy, and instead of a purple candle, the pink candle is lit.  This Sunday marks a change in mood from the [...]

Advent continues.  Today is the second Sunday of Advent and the start of the second week of Advent.  We continue to look forward to Jesus’ coming–both in anticipating Christmas and in anticipating his coming again.  For celebrating Jesus’ Advent must needs include both a looking back and a looking forward–it must include more than one [...]

Today is the first Sunday of Advent.  It’s hard to believe that the Christmas season is here already.  But Thanksgiving is over, and that means Christmas is right around the corner. I’ve been reading up on Advent over the last few days.  None of the churches I attended growing up celebrated Advent, so I wasn’t [...]

March 21 is Mother’s Day here in the Middle East.  I didn’t know that until I went to church tonight.  At the end of the service they had the kids come down from the children’s room and sing a song for the adults.  And of course they were cute, and all the proud parents snapped [...]

Today is Palm Sunday.  I almost missed it.  I don’t look at a calendar very often. This is the day, Jesus said, that if the people didn’t praise Him the very rocks would cry out.  I’ve always wondered what the rocks would have sounded like. It reminds me of that verse in Isaiah that the [...]

I would like to share a hymn I really like but which is not well-known or sung very often.  If you want to know what it sounds like you can go here.  There are more verses to the song on that website than I include here.  Even more information can be found here.  I think [...]

I have been asked to write about the church I go to here in Bahrain.  I thought I’d mentioned it before now, but I guess I hadn’t.  Sorry about that. Jeremy found the church on the Internet.   I don’t know what website he found it at.  So sorry I can’t point you in that [...]