BAZZAS BLOG

…it goes.

I don’t know about you but I always find it a bit of anti-climax at the end of Boxing Day. All the running around and preparations; what were they all for? It’s weird the way Christmas has become this monster that is spiralling out of control. More debt; more upsert; more drinking; more sex; more fighting; more depression; more suicide etc etc.

Christmas, ultimately, is this celebration of Jesus Christ who came into the world over 2000 years ago; God in human form. Emmanuel - God is with us!!! Awesome God yet very much like us.

God come to earth to reveal Himself to us again and say ‘Here I am’. What will this year ahead hold for us?

I haven’t enjoyed 2006 that much and to quote the Queen from a few years ago, I reckon this has been our Annus Horibilis in many ways. My dad passed away in January. For various reasons, most of my good friends have or are moving on to other places and things. My best friend has deserted his family. My Aunt is currently in hospital dying from cancer.

I am not complaining about this stuff although at times I want to just wake up to find it’s all not happening. However, God is still God and I know, from experience that He is real, He is faithful and He loves me and hears me when I cry out to Him. He answers my prayers.

I pray that 2007 will be a great year and that if you don’t know Him like I do, you will call out to Him, cos He will answer You. I am totally confident in that fact!!

Stuart

….and It’s all about Jesus…still!!!

I love Christmas and I think that this year more people than ever are heading for church as they are seeking something more fulfilling in their lives than the stuff they are getting in the world. Attendance at carols serivices is shown to be up dramtically. Maybe it could also be the fact that people are fed up with being told that we cannot say the name Jesus Christ in case it offends someone, or that they can’t have Christmas decorations, or wear a cross, or sing carols in school etc etc. Are we at last realising that our Christian heritage is worth hanging on to?

Christmas is a time to consider the message of Jesus; that God Himself, came into the world as human being to be like us and to experience our humanity and to bring us back to God.

Whereas most religions are about us searching for God, Christianity is about God searching for us and Him coming to show Himself to us so that we can be restored into the amazing relationship for which we were created.

Jesus is still the Way, the Truth and the Life; No one comes to God except through Him. Is this Christmas time the time for you to pray and ask God into your life? ? ? ? ?

COME ON

Stuart

ps. Follow this link. It’s great to hear famous people pray to God too!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/ukfs_sport/hi/av/bb_wm_fs.stm?news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6201499

….I’m still not recovered from Man Flu!…It seems to want to stay and fluctuate so sometimes I feel fine and other times I feel awful….I even lost my voice for a day!!…I hated it but Sue loved it!

Christmas is rapidly approaching but, I htink for the first time ever, Im not too bothered!!! HELP!!! I want that Christmas feeling!

I love Jesus and like the fact that really its all about Him but I think and celebrate that fact every day of the year. So, I enjoy Christmas as much for the family stuff and pressies etc. I do think though, that this year, most people are fed up with buying pressies for people who have everything anyway and who will probably only be slapping it on Ebay at the first opportunity!

Bah Humbug!

But, never forget, JESUS is the REASON for the SEASON!!!

Stuart