December 2018
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Monday 10 December
Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat, Time for the credit card, to pay without contact. If you haven’t got a credit card, cash will have to do, If you’ve got no cash to spend, oh dear! Poor you!
Sometimes it seems that Christmas is an endless round of spending, spending and more spending. The presents that we buy for people who already have everything they could ever need or want. The phenomenal amount of food shopping that seems to be needed in the run up to Christmas. And the little extras we buy because everything has to be just perfect. And why do we do all this anyway? Is it to earn our favour with those we give to, or to get something wonderful back from them? Or is it to impress the people we feed or just to keep up appearances? But actually of course Christmas isn’t really about the food we prepare or the gifts we give, or the people we impress. The reason for the season is the gift that God wants to give us, the gift of knowing him and his love for us. We celebrate Christmas because one
day two thousand years ago a tiny baby was born in squalor. He turned out to be God himself come to share our humanity, and to live the joys and the difficulties of this world with ordinary people like you and me. He came to teach and to heal, to challenge injustice and ultimately he was prepared to give up his life for his friends, so that we ordinary human beings could know the wonderful gift of God’s amazing love for us. We do not need to give God anything to receive this. We do not need to impress God so that he loves us. He already does, just as we are. That is why he came into the world as a baby, and that is what Christmas is really all about. To remember and celebrate the love we have been given, and to receive that love from God and to pass it on to one another.
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My prayer is that this Christmas you might be able to experience this amazing love that God has given us. May you be able to share this love with the people you meet. And may your Christmas season be full of joy and love this year. Amen Rev Remco van den Heuvel, W Free Church
RAF Flypast
Tuesday 4 & 18 December at 1.30pm To celebrate the completion of training at RAF Halton we can expect a flypast (weather permitting)
ANTIQUES AT . . . WENDOVER December Mystery Object at the Antiques Centre
October’s was a perpetual Calendar £10 Gift voucher for the winner
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Join us for mulled wine and mince pies on Sunday 2 December
Late night opening 5 December
Carols around the Christmas Tree CHINNOR SILVER BAND MANOR WASTE Friday 21st December 2018 6.30pm-8pm Song Sheets Provided
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