Comments on: Of Trees and Family Worship http://www.colossiansthreesixteen.com/archives/112 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wade http://www.colossiansthreesixteen.com/archives/112#comment-238 Wade Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.colossiansthreesixteen.com/?p=112#comment-238 Brent, This is a great idea! Thanks for bringing attention to this. Wade Brent,

This is a great idea! Thanks for bringing attention to this.

Wade

]]> By: Katie Haggard http://www.colossiansthreesixteen.com/archives/112#comment-237 Katie Haggard Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:13:00 +0000 http://www.colossiansthreesixteen.com/?p=112#comment-237 I really like the Jesse Tree idea...I would love to start that next year. I have heard of it vaguely, but haven't really looked into it. It sounds wonderful! Since Trevor was 1 yr old, we have done "Wise Men Gifts" instead of playing Santa. The purpose is to try to keep our Christmas morning focused on Christ rather than Santa and (if possible)presents! I got this idea from one of the Women's Holiday Brunches one year. Each child is presented with a "Gold", "Frankincense", and "Myrrh" gift. Each gift given is representative of these three things. For example, frankincense: we give them a gift to help them to commune with God, like a devotional book, children's worship music, etc. Then Gold is their big item, or the thing they wanted most for Christmas, and so on. It is a lot of fun chosing gifts to go along with these three things, and we love that it really helps us keep Christmas morning focused on Christ, and not destracted from other "normal" traditions, like Santa - and I dont have anything against Santa, I just love this tradition much better! I really like the Jesse Tree idea…I would love to start that next year. I have heard of it vaguely, but haven’t really looked into it. It sounds wonderful!

Since Trevor was 1 yr old, we have done “Wise Men Gifts” instead of playing Santa. The purpose is to try to keep our Christmas morning focused on Christ rather than Santa and (if possible)presents! I got this idea from one of the Women’s Holiday Brunches one year. Each child is presented with a “Gold”, “Frankincense”, and “Myrrh” gift. Each gift given is representative of these three things. For example, frankincense: we give them a gift to help them to commune with God, like a devotional book, children’s worship music, etc. Then Gold is their big item, or the thing they wanted most for Christmas, and so on. It is a lot of fun chosing gifts to go along with these three things, and we love that it really helps us keep Christmas morning focused on Christ, and not destracted from other “normal” traditions, like Santa - and I dont have anything against Santa, I just love this tradition much better!

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