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Christmas Crossing Cultures Memoir

City Christmas

Christmas season. Spent last year in a world-class city. One of our favorites.

All shiny and bright. Perfect lights. Colors on point. 

Christmas soundtrack playing continually. In stores. And on the streets. Everywhere.

In an Asian city.

City Christmas. Image by Tobi on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Famine

Famine. It’s coming. 

An odd theme to consider in the middle of Thanksgiving season. But there it is. In my daily Bible reading.

Amos the herdsman delivers this word of the Lord. To a people nonchalant. Complacent. And ultimately resistant. 

Unwilling to repent. 

And this is no scarcity of grain in lean years. Nothing like the famine of Joseph’s day. 

Famine. Image by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Obscurity

Obscurity marks journeys of the faithful. 

Not planned, necessarily. 

Or wanted. 

But purposeful in the work and way of the Lord. 

Obscurity. Image by Daniel Burka on Unsplash.