Morningside Community Church

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions.   (And most of the people who don’t…most likely  used to, but don’t anymore because they could never keep them…or never bothered because they never new anybody who kept theirs!)

Did you make any this year?   What were yours?   Most of us will make various resolutions that have something to do with different areas of their life…family, faith, finances, and the most popular category…FITNESS!

If you go into your local gym in January it will be packed.   But, by February it will be much less crowded.    That’s because we all decide to lose those extra pounds we gained during the holidays (beginning with the candy that we helped our kids eat after Halloween), so we make a New Year’s resolution to eat better and get more exercise.   We all do it, but most of us aren’t disciplined enough to stick with it past 2 or 3 weeks… Read the rest of this entry »

During Advent this year, Pastor Joe brings a 3-part  series on finding more at Christmas than lights, fruitcake and mistletoe.   Have you ever had the thought, “As fun as Santa, Frosty and Rudolph are to sing about…there has to be something more meaningful about Christmas?   Something more real, more tangible, more substantial than just the marketed holiday children’s stories!   What is so special about this season?!”

Well, there IS more about Christmas than all of that stuff you can find on a shelf in the store!   Much more in fact…and over the next three weeks we will be openning the wonderful gifts that wait for each one of us at Christmas.   We hope that you join us…and Merry Christmas! Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not going to reference that one song either…drat, I just did.   Anyways, how about a bad week?   Bad Month?   Maybe you unfortunately had a bad year…  

I had a bad day today – everything was going wrong at work.   All of the components I tried to work with failed for one reason or another.   It was very important that we got those components tested and moved on.   I was really frustrated and it was showing…       Read the rest of this entry »

I love the Christmas season. I love snow. I love Christmas trees. I love Christmas decorations. I love giving. And yes, I’ll admit, I love getting presents. The one thing about Christmas I haven’t loved in the past is the theme of “Christmas Traditions”.

I have attended women’s groups that emphasized the importance of having family traditions at Christmas. One woman’s family did a drama each year. The children all had their parts, the parents had their’s. It wouldn’t have been Christmas to them without a drama. Another woman’s family baked for at least a week to prepare all the Christmas goodies their tradition dictated. She was at an age that her daughters were begining to take over most of the baking. On and on went the stories. I would leave, not feeling encouraged, but a total failure. What were my families Christmas traditions? I couldn’t think of any… Read the rest of this entry »