Christmas Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/christmas/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:17 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christmas Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/christmas/ 32 32 93416650 Call Him… Prince of Peace? https://brianharrisauthor.com/call-him-prince-of-peace-2/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/call-him-prince-of-peace-2/#comments Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5192 Happy Christmas. Here’s a short piece I wrote a few years back that is in my book Could this be God. It comes with my warmest Christmas greetings to you and yours. I was recently part of a group finalising a Christmas preaching series. We decided on the theme ‘Call Him’ and planned to look […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/call-him-prince-of-peace-2/feed/ 2 5192 Because you never really know what you’re signing up for: Mary’s Story… https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-never-really-know-what-youre-signing-up-for-marys-story/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-never-really-know-what-youre-signing-up-for-marys-story/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5160 Perhaps you have heard the story of the farmer who discovered that a beautiful white horse had wandered onto his property. Despite the best efforts to find its owner, no one came forward and he was told to keep the horse, his friends saying: “You are so blessed to have received a wonderful horse like […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/because-you-never-really-know-what-youre-signing-up-for-marys-story/feed/ 0 5160 Fa, la, la, la, la – It’s Christmas https://brianharrisauthor.com/fa-la-la-la-la-its-christmas/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/fa-la-la-la-la-its-christmas/#respond Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4605 With temperatures rising by the day, Christmas must be near. While some dream of a snow filled white Christmas, Australian images are of sunshine, BBQ’s and beaches. Though I have lived in three countries, they have all been in the Southern Hemisphere, so this meets with my approval. I’ve never heard ‘sleigh bells ringing’, but […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/fa-la-la-la-la-its-christmas/feed/ 0 4605 Story or Plot: On Christmas and Purpose… https://brianharrisauthor.com/story-or-plot-finding-purpose-in-the-flow-of-life/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/story-or-plot-finding-purpose-in-the-flow-of-life/#comments Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4590 EM Foster wisely noted the difference between a story and a plot. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. It’s a chronological sequence of events. However, it becomes a plot if you add two words, “The king died and then the queen died of grief.” Plot suggests cause and effect. A […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/story-or-plot-finding-purpose-in-the-flow-of-life/feed/ 2 4590 Just because it’s Christmas (change the world) https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-because-its-christmas-change-the-world/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-because-its-christmas-change-the-world/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4072 Just because it’s Christmas a whole lot of things are going to happen. Many people will double (or treble) their calorie intake. A phenomenal number of gifts will be exchanged. Some will be greatly treasured, others will provoke a startled “Why would you think I would want that?”; several are likely to be in the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-because-its-christmas-change-the-world/feed/ 2 4072 Not such a silent night… https://brianharrisauthor.com/not-such-a-silent-night/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/not-such-a-silent-night/#respond Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4065 Back in the 1990’s I was part of a tour which started in Egypt and finished in Israel. Naturally a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was part of the agenda. I had high hopes for the time, and imagined myself bowing the knee at the Grotto Cave where it is thought […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/not-such-a-silent-night/feed/ 0 4065 Christmas: From “for us” to “with us”… https://brianharrisauthor.com/christmas-from-for-us-to-with-us/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/christmas-from-for-us-to-with-us/#respond Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:00:19 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3397 Probably like you, I am struggling to believe that Christmas is almost upon us – but facts are facts, and December is galloping away. I have done some Christmas shopping and the family are soon due to see the Christmas lights – so it is definitely that time of the year. As I have been […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/christmas-from-for-us-to-with-us/feed/ 0 3397 The Way, the Truth and the Life: with Jon Bergmann https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-way-the-truth-and-the-life-with-jon-bergmann/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-way-the-truth-and-the-life-with-jon-bergmann/#respond Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:00:36 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3086 One of the many things I love about my post as principal of Vose Seminary, is that I get to work with some amazing and creative thinkers. No matter whose office I walk into at the seminary, my entry causes the average IQ in the room to drop about 10 points! More recently we’ve been […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotable-for-christmas/feed/ 2 3073 And in the Chaos, God… https://brianharrisauthor.com/and-in-the-chaos-god/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/and-in-the-chaos-god/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:00:34 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2747 With Christmas around the corner, I thought I would reproduce one of the Christmas meditations from my book Could this be God: Bumping Into God in the Everyday. It’s called: And in the Chaos, God… Did you get your fair share of nativity plays this Christmas season? I certainly enjoyed watching a host of little children […]

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