Tis the night before Christmas...

Thinking back on my childhood Christmas experiences

Bing Crosby...
Louis Armstrong...
Julie Andrews (joy to the world)...
Our old record player...
Making a fire in the fireplace...
Decorating the tree...
Setting up one of my many trains (I loved trains)...
Singing with kids Choirs...
Caroling...
Baking...
Canasta...
               ...And right in the middle of all my childhood Christmas memories is my parents, who always tried to make Christmas special for us... and to be honest, I think they did a great job at it!

Merry Christmas Ya'll!

A couple of Days ago...

A couple of Days ago... I had the opportunity to talk with a co-worker who was raised Buddhist. She asked me if I had gone to church the previous Sunday, and I told her that I had. We talked for a few minutes about Church, Buddhism, Christianity, and freedom in Christ, she told me that she could not go to church any more because she is Buddhist, she showed me her green Buddha necklace and said she needed to go a the temple instead of a church. Before she left my department she asked if I went to a baptist church, and she told me that I sounded like a baptist, I laughed, but I'm not actually sure what it means that I sound like a baptist. After she went off to do her job I asked the Lord: "what would you say to a Buddhist?" And He responded with a verse: "Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest..." So when I had finished work, and clocked out... I went and found her; I told her, Jesus said: "Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest..." and she responded: "I know, that's why I came."

      Have a blessed Christmas!

                                                   Nicholas Locke

A sermon I did at IMI this last spring.