Holiday Bulletin Inserts
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New Year's
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Superbowl Sunday
- Sin, the Christian, and The Field-Goal Principle - "Christians have an opposing force seeking to defeat them—an enemy who is happy to score spiritual field-goals (rather than touchdowns) by tempting them to sin in little ways, even if he cannot always score in big ways."
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Groundhog Day
- You Can't Trust a Groundhog - "Every Groundhog Day, Phil is pulled from his climate-controlled, simulated tree-trunk burrow at exactly 7:25am. According to folklore, if Phil sees his shadow, everyone can expect six more weeks of winter. But just how reliable is Phil?"
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Valentine's Day
Mardi Gras
- Here's the Skinny on Fat Tuesday - "There is a great deal of irony in that name because Fat Tuesday is by no means a time when the desires of the flesh are denied or bid farewell."
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Presidents Day
- The Sustainer of Presidents - In 1789, George Washington addressed the legislators and citizens gathered in New York City to celebrate his installation as the first president of the United States. - Read this article online -
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St. Patrick's Day
- Patrick, Missionary to Ireland - "As Attila the Hun prepared his first attack on Roman provinces and Augustine secluded himself in his study writing The City of God, Patrick's parents worried about their son."
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- What Does Luck Have to Do with It? - Insert especially for St. Patrick's Day (but may be used at other times of the year) that discusses why things happen. The insert is formatted with color, but prints well in black-and-white.
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April Fool's Day
- Confessions of an April Fool - "I don't know about you, but if I had been alive in Rome in 1582, I would probably have been one of the original April fools."
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Tax Day (April 15th)
- April 15th—Be Warned! "When our American fathers stormed the Boston docks, threw out the British tea, and cried, "No taxation without representation," they could not possibly have imagined what freedom from our mother country would bring."
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Earth Day (April 22nd)
- Global Warming: The Great Understatement - "According to widely publicized scientific studies, the carbon emissions from cars, power plants, and factories are causing our planet to lose its protective layer of atmospheric ozone. This loss is enabling more and more of the sun's rays to penetrate, which in turn is gradually heating up the surface of the earth."
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Easter
- I Believe in the Resurrection "The resurrection of Jesus Christ has been called the central teaching of the Christian faith, the heart of the Gospel, the cornerstone of our theology, and the basis of our hope as believers. Perhaps that explains why the truth of the bodily resurrection of Christ has been under attack since the very day the tomb was discovered to be empty (Matthew 28:11-15)."
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- The Problem With Easter "After its conception as a holy celebration in the second century, Easter was not always celebrated on Sunday as it is today. But when it should be celebrated has been a source of controversy and confusion throughout the centuries."
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- The Most Important Thing Insert for Easter (or any other time) that asks the question, "And what among all that is important will be the most important?"
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- Tom, Risen from the Dead! "Imagine what you would think if your good friend (we'll call him Tom) were to tell you that he is going to die due to some angry men, and then be put in the grave. You would listen incredulously at his prediction about himself, no doubt. How could he know that he is going to die, and by what means he is going to die?"
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For the Sunday After Easter
- The Greatest Change in a Single Day "The Bible makes this terse announcement: 'He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.' Indeed, a man had come back to life, but such had happened before. But unlike His predecessors, this Man would never retreat to the company of the dead. His resurrection blazed a trail to eternity for an innumerable host to follow-one day."
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Mother's Day
- The Reluctant Mother: Amy Carmichael - "We can't always identify life-changing moments as they occur. When a little Indian girl named Preena crawled into Amy Carmichael's lap and called her "Amma" (or "mother" in Tamil) for the first time, neither of them could have known that this simple act would change both their lives forever, and the lives of hundreds of others."
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- She Loved It! Mother's Day insert exploring the beauty, nobility of character and Christlikeness of a Christian mother.
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- Memories of Mothers "Unseen earthly remains and granite markers are but insignificant tokens of lives once lived, of joy and sadness, victory and defeat—all inseparable components of motherhood."
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Memorial Day
- The Importance of Remembering - "Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for Americans who have died in military service to our nation. To remember the sacrifices of those in our past is not only right and good, but essential. Without such sacrifices, we would have no present freedom, security, or stability."
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Father's Day
- Fathering "by the Book" - "I'm sure (or at least I hope) Mr. Cosby was only kidding. Perhaps he meant to say that whatever you do as a father will either be right or wrong. If that is what he meant, I agree. But if he meant to say that the best you can do as a father facing difficult child-raising issues is to flip a coin (so to speak), he could not be more wrong."
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- Game Turned Shame: I Actually Bought It! - "At the end of the day, he always wanted the best for me. He would pay a price to see that it happened."
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The Word Fathers Long to Hear - "I miss Jenny and often feel sadness because I'll never see her again in this life. She was, after all, one-third of my small flock, and I sometimes feel wronged over what seems to be her untimely death. Instead of being discouraged, however, I must learn to thank God for the 22 memorable years He gave us together."
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- John G Paton's Father: A Key to His Courage - "When I dug for the reasons he was so courageous, one reason I found was the deep love he had for his father."
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Independence Day
- Burning the Flag - "On July 4, 1776, a group of brave Americans boldly declared themselves and their country to be free from the tyranny of foreign rule. At that moment, however, they were not free at all. They had yet to fight a war in order to gain the freedom they had declared for themselves."
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- Our Only Sure Defense - "To be a people under God-led, covered and protected by His almighty hand-is our only sure defense."
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Patriot Day
- A Christ-like Response to September 11th - "God had nothing to do with September 11th."
Those words were reportedly spoken by a pastor who was responding to a question about God's involvement in the infamous terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. Whether they were actually spoken as reported or not, I do not know. But they raise some good questions: What should we say about God in the aftermath of a tragedy? How should we explain His involvement when evil men commit heinous acts of brutality?
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Yom Kippur
- When Was Your Yom Kippur? - "The eyes of all Israel were raised toward the Kohen Gadol's [high priest's] order of service, which began toward the break of dawn. On his success, the atonement of all Israel was dependent." Read this article online -
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Halloween/Reformation Day
- The Morning Star of Wittenberg: Katharina von Bora Luther - Katharina provided a new example of what it
means to be a woman dedicated to God—not cloistered in a convent but unselfishly serving her family and the church. Read this article online -
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- What Not to Pretend About - Pretending is a good way for children to use their imaginations, but today I'm going to tell you a story about a grown-up who used his imagination in a bad way. He pretended something so foolish you will hardly believe it! Read this article online -
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- What was "Reformed" in the Reformation? - "If one wants to know what the Protestant Reformation was all about without reading huge volumes of historical literature, it is perhaps most clarifying to look at the theological results."
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- Ezekiel and the Dry Bones - "If I dig a hole and bury a chicken bone from last night's dinner, do you think I could grow a chicken? What if I put the bone in a cage with some chicken feed? If I wait long enough, will the chicken grow back around the old chicken bone? No, of course not. But let me tell you a story from the Bible about some bones that did come to life."
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- October 31, 1517 - This insert tells the story of Martin Luther and presents a gospel message.
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- The Very Scary Hand "Suddenly, Belshazzar saw something so frightening that his knees knocked together, his legs became weak and all the color drained from his face. A hand (just a hand with no body attached) began to write on the wall opposite the lamp in the room where the feast was held. Wouldn't you be frightened to see such a thing?"
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- The 95 Theses of Martin Luther - "On October 31st, 1517, Dr. Luther nailed the 95 theses on the Wittenberg castle church door. . . This day marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation."
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Thanksgiving
- Not Much to Be Thankful For "What if you were called on this Thanksgiving to give a report of what you were thankful for? If you could say, not what you ought to say, but what is strictly true, what would come out of your mouth? What makes you really happy?"
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- But I Don't Feel Thankful - Thanksgiving insert tells about the difficulties faced by the Pilgrims in their first year in the New World, and presents a gospel message.
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- THOUGHTS FOR THANKSGIVING - "In an era not so long ago, our country was being ripped asunder by internal turmoils and differences—much as it is today. Yet even in the midst of the darkness of civil war, Abraham Lincoln cast a ray of hope that the nation might once again have "full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union."
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- David and John Brainerd: Missionaries to Native Americans - David Brainerd died well. "Now that I am dying," he said, "I declare that I would not for all the world have spent my life otherwise." His brother John was convinced. He carried on David's work until his own death 34 years later. - Read this article online -
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Christmas
O Come, Let Us Adore the God-man - But as we think about the entrance of Christ into this world, questions surface about how Jesus could be both God and man." -
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- A Special Baby Shower "A long time ago some very wise men decided to bring gifts to a baby."
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- Christmas: Bah Humbug or Gloria in Excelsis? "Today Christmas is almost entirely secularized. It is a merchant's most profitable period as eager shoppers raid their shelves. Can we be any more comfortable with a secular Christmas than the religiously-loaded Christmas the Puritans detested?"
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- 'Tis the Season to be Jolly? - Insert for the Christmas season exploring the emptiness of materialism.
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- THE TWO PICTURES OF CHRISTMAS - I gaze at two differing pictures of Christmas. The first, a photograph my wife discovered tucked away in an old book, hints of the 1940s. It's Christmas morning, and five smiling children radiate the pleasure of having a few simple gifts arrayed before them, fully satisfied.
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