Merry Christmas to All

Dear Friends and Family,

We wish you the warmest, most beautiful Christmas ever!
During this season, we pray that you would come to a deeper understanding of God becoming man in the greatest gift of all - Jesus Christ.
He came to save us. He lives making intercession for us.

He will come back to bring us home.

Merry Christmas!

Pat, Janet, Genesis, and Caleb Sieler

Opportunity to Help

So many friends (and sometimes people we don't even know!) have helped us in ways only heaven knows. Now, here's an opportunity for help that we thought would be good to make known.

Most of you know that for the last seven (!) months we have been living with my in-laws. While we have been greatly blessed by their tremendous help, we also know that it will be good to have our family living in our own space. The house that we own is being rented; the lease is not up until another seven months. However, we recently spoke to our tenants and asked them to consider moving out early, the end of January. To our surprise, they said they would consider it. We offered to help them find a new place, but we need to move quickly. So here's where you can help us.

If you know of a place or see a place to rent that meets the following criteria, please email or call us. Email: psieler@gmail.com. Pat's cell: 786-525-6674

3 bedroom
2 bath
in the South Miami area, within a few miles to UM

Thank you so much!

Website of the Month

This website features a scientific explanation for the star of Bethlehem during the birth of Jesus the Messiah. It is very informative.

Click here to go to website.

Podcast of the Month

Pastor's Perspective is a one hour show of Calvary Chapel pastors, such as Chuck Smith and Brian Broderson, answering questions from callers. You can check out the link at www.kwve.org.

Bonus: If you're into the NFL, my favorite football podcast can be found at www.bigplaymag.com.

Drink of the Month

For this time of year, for me, it's the Starbuck's Venti (i.e. large) Peppermint Mocha. Yum!
This is the drink I got when Janet and I were driving from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. a number of years ago. Or, I'd sit in the Starbucks on 3rd Line and Dundas watching it snow outside, studying my Bible and sipping my Peppermint Mocha. Recently, I enjoyed a walk down Miracle Mile with this drink in one hand and my wife's hand in the other. Overall, the Peppermint Mocha has become part of our holiday tradition.

Book of the Month

I just finished reading "Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul" by Erwin McManus. Great book, very deep, very thought-provoking. Good book to read a couple times, quite challenging. Here's a quote:

"To follow Jesus Christ is to choose to live in His adventure....Faith and risk are inseperable. It should not come as a surprise to us then that a life of faith is a life of courage...Having faith is all about action. You cannot walk with God and not face your fears. God calls you to dream great dreams and to have the courage to live them. Great dreams require great courage."

Quote Of The Month

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
~ Dr. Seuss