A flyer dropped into our letterbox a couple of weeks ago, promising a warm welcome at the annual carol service of the Belvoir Street Baptist Church just a few blocks away from our house. Our Christmas houseguests were as keen as I was to uphold this particular tradition (though Tom took a little more persuading), and off we went to enjoy the singsong. This we did, as the tuneless video attests. What we weren't able to capture for posterity was this church's version of the "Christmas message", a 20-minute sermon delivered by a dour man near the end of the service, which mentioned the word "love" only once, and instead focused on how sinful we are as human beings, sinners who deserve to be punished unless we repent. This man's God was a vengeful God. This was not the God I learned about at Sunday School.
However - despite the threat of eternal damnation looming over our sinful heads - a merry Christmas was had by all.
Love, ali x
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Bravo Bravo and I loved the addition of Tom, good effort on the filming in such a covert way. Mine is just coming angel, having a few technical problems i.e. my computer has the BSOD (black screen of death) and Will has to reboot it to get the files off. Never fear though, I have a new challenge which I will set as soon as I have uploaded the documentation. Love you and can't wait to catch up, maybe we could have a skype call on Sunday? Gem xx
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