2013-12-18T06:00:04-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/one+thousand+gifts/ http://faithgateway.com/north-pole-or-manger/ 2013-12-18T06:00:04-05:00 Some call him Sinterklaas. Others Pere Noel or Papa Noel. He’s been known as Hoteiosho, Sonnerklaas, Father Christmas, Jelly Belly, and to most English speakers, Santa Claus. His original name was Nicholas, which means victorious. He was born in AD 280 in what is now Turkey. He was orphaned at age nine when his parents died of a plague. Though many […] http://faithgateway.com/lifestyle-of-thanksgiving/ 2013-11-23T06:00:04-05:00 When children sleep under the scraps stitched into quilts and the clock ticks too loudly through the dark hours and the spiral galaxies spin in space, I lie under the afghan by the fire and read the words of an old sermon. It is weeks later now, and the mind stores things, waiting for such a time when […] http://faithgateway.com/bible-study-for-thanksgiving/ 2013-10-29T06:00:06-05:00 In our evening devotions with our boys (6 & 4 years old), my wife and I are walking through the Old Testament and have finished up Genesis and moved on to Moses.  As we started, we read this verse in Exodus chapter 1: “Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to […] http://faithgateway.com/every-good-perfect-gift/ 2013-10-04T14:47:34-05:00 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. — James 1:17 In the middle of a stiff winter wind she asks to go to the beach. That’s where she says she wants to celebrate the turning of her calendar […]