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10.12.13 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

A Heart Of Love For Christmas

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Heart Shapes Mean Love We love many things, but there are some we love with all our hearts. When you see a heart shape it almost always means something is our favorite, and it has become an icon on computers. Swedish Hearts There is a paper craft for today that is called a “Swedish Heart”,…

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09.12.13 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

Make Me A Sheep

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I am not kidding! I want Jesus to make me into a little sheep who follows him and listens to him. When we aren’t like sheep we will be like something else…like maybe a pushy little goat who chews up things and butts people.   Sheep Craft Activity Today, however, we want to make a…

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06.12.13 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

Be A Candle

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Inside you is the possibility of being a light, just as the fire that lights up the wick of a candle. Your heart and mind are the candle that keeps the light glowing. You can be a candle. Have you ever heard the story of Pollyanna or seen the old movie about that book? Some…

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08.12.12 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

F Is For Family

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Family The Scripture for today is from the words of Joshua: Joshua 24:15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as…

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08.12.11 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

Advent Day Twelve: Sheaf of Wheat

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Precious Truth: Your good works and faith will not go unnoticed. Today’s Reading from The Word Ruth 2: 2-11 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”…

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24.12.10 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

26. Snow

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Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. Snow- it’s whiteness covers the earth and makes everything seem like a brand new slate. Make some snow cones…

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Christmas vignette

18.12.10 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

20. Candy Cane

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Today is Candy Cane Day at the Advent blog, here! Get plenty of candy canes, pass them around, and learn of their symbolism. You can start reading some Christmas Thoughts, the candy cane story at the bottom of the page; consider printing out this poem, attach to candy canes and pass them out at random….

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little angel

30.11.10 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

3. Soap

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Malachi 3: 1-3 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of…

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29.11.10 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

2. Picture Frame

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Do you have picture frames to display your favorite pictures and our photos? We don’t always think about the frame while we center our attention on the main focus of the picture. Most people see these frames around office art or in the family photo displays and don’t think twice about them; after all, they…

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19.12.09 | The Candlelighter | No Comments

(21) God Promises A Yield From His Word

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Scripture: Isaiah 55: 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It…

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