Merry Christmas

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To friends IRL and blog friends around the world, we at The Master’s Table wish you a very Merry Christmas and look forward to the New Year. God loves you and I love you.

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Happy Monday

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Christmas is just four days away. You’re almost out of those shopping days but look on the bright side: you get a holly jolly Happy Monday. Continue reading →

Happy Monday: Geek Week

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Most of the time I try to reign in my nerdy, geekish tendencies. I often save Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who related pics and memes but do not include them in Happy Monday posts. In honor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening this week, here are nothing but Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who related pics, memes, cartoons and videos. Live long and prosper, may the Force be with you, and have a happy Monday! Continue reading →

Where’s All the Christmas Posts?

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In years past I have devoted the month of December to blogging nothing but Advent and Christmas. There have been a few of those in recent weeks. One reason I have been posting fewer things on The Master’s Table is that I’ve been posting in other places, such as my church’s website. So if you’re looking for more stuff, let me suggest the following. Continue reading →

Random Bits

Screenshot 2015-12-07 at 2.22.41 PMWriters tend to work through things by writing about them. There hasn’t been a new post at My Other Blog in quite a while but this one lists some things I’ve done over the past 40 years. Big birthday coming up, this is more productive than buying a small sports car. Continue reading →

Happy Thanksgiving, 2015

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If anyone is wondering, there is in fact a correct way to carve a turkey. Alton Brown via the Food Network gives us the step by step in this 3 min. highly informative video: Continue reading →

From the Archives: Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving

Originally published November 24, 2010

Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birth, but there is no biblical command to observe it. There are however feasts, songs and prayers of thanksgiving are all over the Bible. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with Christmas; during his lifetime Jesus was an observant Jew, and every indication is that he observed all the Jewish festivals, including the historical ones not just the religious festivals commanded in scripture. The arrival of “God with us” is a major turning point in all of history. But we are commanded to praise God and give thanks. Moses sang songs of thanksgiving, David wrote his own. James reminds us that “every good gift and perfect gift is from above.” The United States was the first country to observe a national holiday for giving thanks. Continue reading →

Happy Monday: Thanksgiving Special

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Most of our readers are in the United States and will celebrate Thanksgiving later this week. So let’s “get off on the good foot” with a compilation of scriptures and other fun things that make us smile. We live in a crazy world but there is much to be thankful for. Continue reading →