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How do you enter the HGTV Dream Home Sweepstakes? This year, HGTV is giving away a beautiful mountain home in Vermont and they’ve just launched the contest. Click here to go directly to the page where you can enter. It’s quick and easy. Who knows? You could be the winner of this incredible home. Someone’s going to…

Growing up with my grandparents, they always served two things on New Years Day – black eyed peas for good luck and cabbage for prosperity! It’s funny how that tradition reminds me so much of their love and sacrifice for me and so many others. Hope you celebrate the coming of the new year and…

Every year people around the world sing Auld Lang Syne. We’ll be singing it as a family at midnight and would love for your voices to join the chorus. In case you don’t know the lyrics, here they are along with a video:  Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be…

Happy New Year from the Davis family. All our love to each of you and may God bless you with an amazing 2011! Click here to subscribe to Red Letters. Click here to follow Tom Davis on Twitter.

This is how we change lives, together with partners from around the U.S. Kids, families, moms and dads…together we’re fighting for kids to have a fighting chance in our world. This video shows some of the story changers, and some of the stories we’ve changed this year. There’s still time to join us and make…

Merry Christmas! The day of Christ’s Advent is here, and I wish you and your family a happy, safe, and sacred Christmas day. Today, God begins His rescue mission. As the words of O Come, O Come Emmanuel say: O come, O come, EmmanuelAnd ransom captive IsraelThat mourns in lonely exile hereUntil the Son of…

Tonight, Christians around the globe will celebrate the birth of Christ in holy candlelight vigils and ceremonies. One of the most beautiful Christmas hymns ever sung is O Holy Night. It’s not exactly a caroling song, but when you hear it done right it can send your spirit soaring (and your tears falling). Tonight, the…

Nine months pregnant and trudging toward Bethlehem…sounds like everyone’s perfect birth plan! Our veneration of Mary as the mother of the Savior would not have been shared by her culture. We forget that from the perspective of her society, Jesus was a child born out of wedlock. Mary was a “Teen Mom,” like on the…

The shepherds make an appearance in just about every Christmas carol, and they are usually paired up with the angels. It’s because the angels announced Jesus’ birth to the shepherds first. I’ve put the whole story from Luke 2 below, but to quickly paraphrase, the shepherds are out grazing their sheep when one angel appears…

I love the title of this song because this may be the most important question in the history of our world. It is certainly the most important question in my life. How you answer this question will change the course of your life. What child is this? Is he the born-out-of-wedlock human son of young…
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