As we enter Thanksgiving week and the Advent season, we must recognize that both gratitude and happiness are intentional choices that we make. We cannot wait for others to bring it to us, or we will be severely disappointed. In our world, most people are always longing for something more, bigger, and better. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the perfect time to stop, reflect, and fully appreciate the blessings we currently have even when life isn’t perfect. Every human being seeks happiness, but it remains fleeting and elusive. It comes and goes. One......

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We are now getting close to Thanksgiving and the Advent Season, truly the most wonderful time of the year! For over 40 years now, Woodmont has been putting on Walk Thru Bethlehem for the Nashville community, and many who travel in from out of town. What first started as a live nativity scene up at South Hall in 1983 put on by our youth (to honor Anne Keith) has grown and evolved into a major community event where thousands walk through the doors of our church to experience what it was like......

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We are coming off a very exhausting, heated, and divisive election season that we will long remember: Emotions have run high. For Christians, the results of any election simply do not change our primary mission. We are called to follow Jesus Christ and spread his love to a hurting world. I heard David Brooks recently speak in Nashville where he said, “Our nation is full of lonely and hurting people. Lonely and hurting people tend to turn to politics to solve many of their problems. That doesn’t work.” What we don’t seem......

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