I didn’t write this. One of many Wayne Kirkpatrick songs I wish I did. This is God Is With Us performed on the Gloria! Christmas Tour – made beautiful by the cello stylings of one Cara Slaybaugh. Enjoy.
Gloria! Christmas Tour (God Is With Us) from Shaun Groves on Vimeo.… 
Today I’m 35. Noah was promised 70 years so that means I’m exactly middle aged…So says my (older) wife the theologian this morning.
A much younger me once thought of middle age as some sort of switch, like you go to bed able to tie your own shoes and wipe yourself and you wake up middle… 
This is Brandon. Brandon plays guitars.
This is Travis. Travis is a singer guy.
Travis calls Brandon the little brother he never wished he had. Brandon earns this title every day. He’s twenty-three, very from Georgia, says things like “smilin’ like a possum eatin’ briars” and he’s generally constantly obnoxious…in a very tolerable to extremely entertaining sort… 
Alrighty, this won’t be short. Let’s recap first.
1. If you need to use the bible to justify gift giving at Christmas time, you’re out of luck: No where are we told to do this. Instead of telling us to give stuff to people to honor Christ’s arrival, it implies that we’re to give ourselves to… 
The way my family celebrates Christmas has everything to do with how we celebrate Halloween. We’re trying to be consistent.
Every October I go into the attic and pull out two large plastic bins full of Halloween decorations and one even bigger one full of costume scraps: wigs, wings, hats, glasses, make-up and, of course, chaps. … 