Top 7 Advent 2020 Activities in Thomasville

For many people, the seasons of Advent and Christmas is a busy and sometimes frantic time of the year. Advent 2020 will be no different. Perhaps it will be more challenging because of Covid restrictions. Still, with some careful planning, there is no reason we cannot experience both the joy and excitement of the season, as well as witness the "awesome wonder" of Christmas. 

So, let me help you a bit. Here are my "Top Seven"  events he...

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What is Advent?

This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent.  Do you know why we observe Advent? 

Advent is the first season of the Christian liturgical year (liturgical means the kind of scriptural and theological emphasis used in worship).  Advent begins with the Sunday nearest November 30 and is celebrated the four Sundays before Christmas Day.  Advent was established as the first season of the Christian year in the 4th century.

The word advent consists...

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Another Thanksgiving Day Parade

No doubt you are all familiar with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Well listen to this one:  In November of 2007, the Associated Press reported a “turkey parade” in Greenlawn, New York.  On Thanksgiving day, 2007, fifteen wild turkeys strutted into the suburban village of Greenlawn and then left just in time to avoid dinner. The turkeys drew crowds of spectators as they showed up that morning. Then they left – marching in single f...

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All Saints Day

Since we could not be in worship this morning, I offer this devotional.“Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus...
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