As promised, here’s my book review of Nicholas by Michael J. Scott.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/book-review-of-nicholas-by-michael-j-scott
This might be the most satisfying book I’ve read all year (not counting old favorites that I read again and again). It’s Christian and Biblical through and through, and would make a great Christmas present for someone you love–or even a present to yourself.
But what am I sitting here gassing about? Click the review!
Requested by Erlene, I Believe in Christmas–and look, now, the Christmas Carol Contest doesn’t officially start until the day after Thanksgiving, but I just can’t say no to a hymn request.
Don’t forget there’s a comment contest going on just now: shooting for 35,000, and as of this moment, just over 1,000 left to go. I wonder if we can wrap that up by Halloween.
We have a custom around here of taking requests for Christmas hymns as part of our yearly Christmas celebration. We’ve had a lot of fun with that, the past two years, and I’ve been thinking of making it more fun yet by holding a Christmas carol contest.
How does this grab you? Whoever requests the Christmas hymn that gets the most views on the day it’s requested, wins a prize. I was thinking of “most views overall” from after Thanksgiving to New Year’s, but that would be letting myself in for a major scorekeeping job. Besides, this way the apparent winner could change from day to day–unbearably exciting!
Anyway, folks, what do you think? Open to suggestion…
Indulge me as I post a Christmas carol outside the Christmas season: Personent Hodie, performed by the Loyola Academy Honors Chamber Singers. First published in 1360–that’s why they’re singing it in Latin. Hint: Turn up the volume. Anyway, this is the song that’s been in my mind the past few days, and I reckon God put it there for a reason.
Besides–is there any bad day to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior?