The Pulse: Your Connection to a Church with a Heart for the Community. The Pulse is David Chapel’s Monthly Publication containing information on DC events, announcements, and other items in need of our attention.
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Highlights
- Children’s Ministry on a Journey to Bethlehem (Burnet, TX)
- Youth Ministry collecting deposits for Camp M-Fuge trip
- Recognition of Children and Youth Accomplishments
- Young Adult Christmas Social
- National Alzeheimer’s Awareness Month
- Watch Night Service: 12/31/2012 7pm-9pm
- Church Office Closed: December 24th,25th, 26th, 31st & January 1st, 2nd
A Message from Pastor Parker
Can you hear it? The song composed by Massachusetts native, Joseph Carleton Beal, and Texan, James Ross Boothe, first released by Bobby Helms in 1957 and played every Christmas time since then?
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock! Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring… Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun — Now the jingle hop has begun!
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock! Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time… Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square — In the frosty air!
What a bright time, it’s the right time…To rock the night away!
Jingle bell time is a swell time…To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh! Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet — Jingle around the clock Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet —
That’s the jingle bell…That’s the jingle bell…That’s the jingle bell rock!
Do you hear this one?
Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” “Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled” Joyful, all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim: “Christ is born in Bethlehem!” Hark! The herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”
So which is it? Jingle bells rocking when it’s not snowing in our Austin neighborhoods or glory to the newborn King when it is snowing in our lives? Perhaps that’s the challenge for Christians in 2012. At Christmas will we lift up and celebrate the birth of the Christ in the midst of a world that jingles with a need for peace, mercy, love, and the Savior or will we join others and simply rock the night away? Make up your mind and let the Lord check your pulse as you give him glory during this Christmas season.
Pastor Parker
