Holidays

Unleavened Bread Recipes and Freebie

This week begins the (Lev 23:6, Exodus 12:15-17).During this week-long feast, nothing with leaven (yeast) in it may be eaten. Leaven is the symbol of all that is unclean and evil and therefore must scrupulously be removed from all houses before the Passover feast. Free Download!

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Christmas in Perspective

The gospel is the news that Jesus Christ has received us into his life. We don’t make Jesus part of our world; he has made us part of his, part of his life and relationship with his Father, part of his anointing in the Spirit, part of his relationship with his creation. It is this reality that summons us to faith and repentance…

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To Christmas or Not to Christmas? Holiday Dilemmas

How do you feel about Christmas?
Do you observe it differently now compared to how you observed it when you were a child? Do you observe it at all? Did you know Christmas has pagan roots? Does that bother you?
Don’t get nervous. I’m not going to tell you what you should or shouldn’t be doing this [...]

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Handel: For Unto Us a Child is Born

For unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder.—Isaiah 9:6

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Happy Hanukkah

The Holiday of Lights — celebrating the miracle of a little oil that lasted eight days, and continues to illuminate our lives to this day.

Jesus preached three sermons in which he declared Himself the “light of the world,” and all three could have been during Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.

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Mary, Did You Know?

Mary, did you know That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Did you know That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you’ve delivered Will soon deliver you

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A Harvest of Thanksgiving

Our cat, Shiloh, relaxing in the middle of my dining room sidebar. She will need to find a new napping place tomorrow.

A Harvest of Thanksgiving

Be present at our table, Lord;
Be here and everywhere adored.
These mercies bless, and grant that we
May feast in fellowship with thee.
- A Table Grace
Steamy hot dishes, traditional and new recipes, laughter, [...]

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The Prophetic Fall Holidays

The spring festivals clearly prophesied the first coming of Messiah; it stands to reason that the fall festivals are prophetic of His second coming. The long period between the end of the spring feasts and beginning of the fall holy days is symbolic of the long period between the formation of the church at the [...]

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Hanukkah and the Light of the World

These Messianic videos below speak of the celebration of Hanukkah as well as its prophetic type in Christ.

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The First Real Thanksgiving

The history of Thanksgiving we observe today is reported as beginning in 1621, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, many scholars believe Thanksgiving may be based on the the Bible autumn harvest festival Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkoth commemorates the temporary shelters used by the Jews during their wandering in the wilderness.
The [...]

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Thanksgiving Recipes

These cookies have been our family tradition for almost 20 years now. Making them is a special time the children look forward to every Thanksgiving. Giving them to neighbors and friends is just as fun.
No Bake Turkey Cookies
Ingredients:
Fudge Striped Cookies
Chocolate bonbons (Christmas candy aisle at Walmart)
Semi-sweet chocolates
Candy corn
Directions:
Melt some of the semi-sweet chocolate in the [...]

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Should Christians Observe Halloween?

It’s that time of year again. Vampires, ghouls, ghosts and skeletons will be haunting our doorways. American retailers celebrate a 5 billion dollar a year candy, card and costume business ($1.5 billion in Canada).
But, Halloween is not just a time for cornstalks, pumpkins, apples and cute and not-so-cute costumes. There is much, [...]

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The Feast of Tabernacles

Feast of Tabernacles : September 27 - October 3, 2007
The Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long autumn harvest [...]

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Yom Kippur Begins at Sundown

I subscribe by email to The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment newsletter. Today’s verse and comment quoted below is by John W. Ritenbaugh and is about Yom Kippur: The Holiest Day of the Year.
I love that he calls the holy days “Teaching Vehicles.” These teaching vehicles have driven me down a narrow road [...]

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Rosh Hashana: Serving the King

The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tishri, the first month of the civil year. This year it falls at sunset on September 12, 2007. It was one of the seven days of holy convocation. [...]

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