My name is Andrew Steven and I'm worship leader and songwriter from Orange County, CA. Bio's are more difficult to write than songs, so this will have to suffice for now. Enjoy the day...
All Sons & Daughters - “Give Me Jesus”
Phil Wickham - “O Come All Ye Faithful”
Help me to make room for You, God in my life. Expand my soul so you may enter in. Help me to be still and know that You are God.
Thank You for sending your Son, to be born a child, and to lay aside majesty and take on the role of a servant. Thank You for your love that is greater than our understanding. Thank you for subjecting Yourself to less than You deserve so than I may have more than I deserve.
May Your Spirit, which was in Jesus Christ, be in me as well. Enable me to know Your will and empower me to do it.
Amen.
Sleeping At Last - “O Holy Night”
… Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter, was himself the Lord of Glory: that was the mystery of God. It was a mystery because God became poor, low, lowly and weak out of love for humankind, because God became a human being like us, so that we would become divine, and because he came to us so that we would come to him. God as the one who becomes low for our sakes, God in Jesus of Nazareth - that is the secret, hidden wisdom … that no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the human Earhart conceived (1 Cor. 2:9) … that is the depth of the Deity, whom we worship as mystery and comprehend as mystery.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via Keri Fox)
Travis Ryan - “Angels We Have Heard On High”
Gungor - “Carol of the Bells”
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The 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are some of the busiest weeks of the year. And even today, there may be a million things running through your mind. Maybe it’s the shopping you need to do. Or maybe it’s the food that needs to be prepared and the cleaning that needs to happen before company arrives. Or maybe you’re packing up the kids and getting in the car or on a plane in the next few days. Whatever the case may be, there are a lot of things vying for our attention this season.
For many of us, it can be easy to make this idea of busyness the point. After all, this is 2011. We seem to be a high capacity, entrepreneurial culture of “Type A” go-getters that thrive on creating, producing, and achieving. And while we celebrate the visions and gifts that God freely gives, we never want to make our continual efforts the point of this story we find ourselves in the midst of.
But sometimes that’s exactly what we do. We obsess over the relationship, the job, the projects, and the to-do lists and we mangle what began as good gifts from a good God into medication we desperately hope will numb us from the pain we feel at much deeper levels. We add more and more noise, not because we can handle all of it, but because we’re afraid we won’t be able to handle what it hides.
This season, however, let’s declare that there is good news of great joy that is for all people. It’s news that changed the world 2,000 years ago and it’s news that continues to change lives today…
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Lórien - “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”
This is my favorite punch ever. My grandma used to make it every Thanksgiving.
Combine all juices:
- 4 Cups - Cranberry Juice
- 1 Cup - Pineapple Juice
- 1 Cup - Orange Juice
- 2 Cups - Lemon Juice / or Lemonade
Sweeten with Simple Syrup:
- 1 and 1/2 Cups - Sugar
- 1/2 Cup - Water
Just before serving add:
- 1 Cup - Ginger Ale
Happy Thanksgiving!
Loudon Wainwright - “Thanksgiving”