Tag: giving
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Some Things Are Actually Worth Paying For
Some things in this world are just worth paying for, regardless if you personally think the value exchange is equal or not, and especially if it goes to help another person, or enables someone else to help another person. Being frugal is one thing, being cheap is another, not recognizing the difference between the two…
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Come Join The Cornerstone Church Food Drop 2012
This year at our church to celebrate Christmas, instead of doing fancy decorations and traditional garland we have been planning for quite a while now to do a “food drop” for the Auburn area. So if you were to walk around the church right now you will see boxes everywhere. A Christmas tree made out…
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Receiving a True Gift Does Not Create an Obligation
Now that the Christmas holiday is over and the gift giving has basically gone back to normal, I have a few observations. As simple as we try to make Christmas, it seems to get more complicated each year. To try and simplify things at our house this year we went back to the German tradition…
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Merry Christmas to My Blogroll with Some Linklove
This is usually one of the busiest days for getting from place to place with family functions, but for us, it is normally a nice quiet day here at the house. Today was similar. I was able to take a nice bike ride and enjoy some quiet time here at our house. I do this…
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50,000 Pairs of Shoes in 50 Days :: Update
Christmas is fast approaching and soon (for some) the gifts purchased up to this point will translate into a lousy January, but if you haven’t finished quite yet, please consider the 50,000 Shoes campaign. I wanted to give a quick update to my post back in November called Soles4Souls Blogging Challenge, 50,000 Pairs of Shoes…
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Doing Simple Christmas with Living Water International
Our church started a new series yesterday called Simple Christmas (see Advent and A Christmas thought) marking the beginning of the Advent season, and what started on Black Friday as the Christmas shopping season. Today is Cyber Monday as it has been called, the day when online retailers do their big sales and discounts that…
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How Often Do We Donate Our Garbage to God
This may sound like another semi-negative blog post on my part, but it is something that my wife and I deal with quite a bit and has really struck a nerve, so stay with me if you can. When we look at what we have and what we decide to give up for various things,…
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Operation Christmas Child from Samaritan's Purse
This Wednesday our weekly Bible study at church was replaced by a gift wrapping party for Operation Christmas Child from Samaritan’s Purse. We enjoyed our weekly pot-luck dinner and then it was on to the wrapping and filling of the shoe boxes. The church filled 50 boxes last year and the goal was 100 for…
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Operation Christmas Child from Samaritan’s Purse
This Wednesday our weekly Bible study at church was replaced by a gift wrapping party for Operation Christmas Child from Samaritan’s Purse. We enjoyed our weekly pot-luck dinner and then it was on to the wrapping and filling of the shoe boxes. The church filled 50 boxes last year and the goal was 100 for…
Scott Fillmer 