Offical AFF 2007 Christmas Tree Thread - Pictures

[rgcraig]

Another picture with my new camera - - boy, what a difference!

[Neck]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Another picture with my new camera - - boy, what a difference!

Nice Tree! I can smell the Christmas cookies!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Nice Tree! I can smell the Christmas cookies!

I just can't let go of the traditional tree of years and years of collected ornaments that all mean something!

I love the "themed trees", but the hodge-podge trees are my favorite!

[True Believer]

Originally Posted by Esther

Very pretty, and it is such a nice effect with the snow falling as I look at it.

I probably will not take a pic of mine this year. I did not put the same effort into this year as I usually do.

I thought the same thing when I saw it!!

[Sam]

Here's ours.
Earlier today some of the grandkids came over.
We celebrated my birthday with cake, ice cream and a couple of gifts.
I'll be seventy on Dec. 6th.
After dinner they helped me get the tree out of the basement and get it decorated. So the decorating was done by my wife and me with the help of grandchildren ages 21, 13, 10 and 6. Some of the ornaments are kinda bunched up together and they tend to be mostly near the bottom of the tree.

I got a message that my picture is too large to upload so you'll have to check it out here:

[Sam]

Of course, no Christmas tree thread would be complete without the classic Jeremiah 10:1-10 passage;

1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Some years ago I was licensed with a group called The Church of Jesus Christ, Pentecostal Faith. Headquarters were in Niles, Michigan. Our Presiding Bishop was G.R. Brock in Indianapolis, iN. He was dead against Christmas trees and cited Jeremiah 10 for his proof text.

A family in Corbin, KY were part of this organization also. One year they decided to go out in the woods and get a Christmas tree even though they'd heard preaching against it. I'm not sure if they were still in this organization at that time or not. There were two preachers in the family --the Dad and an adult son. The Dad was adamantly against getting a tree and called them a bunch of heathens. The son proved from Scripture that they were not violating the teaching of the Bible. He quoted verse 3 where it says, "for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, " and stated, "See, the Bible says one cutteth a tree out of the forest. We didn't do that. It was not just one cutting the tree. There was a whole bunch of us."

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Another picture with my new camera - - boy, what a difference!

Wow I love the grapes!

Did you say that you now own a camera like mine?

I must say your works very good!

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Sam

Here's ours.
Earlier today some of the grandkids came over.
We celebrated my birthday with cake, ice cream and a couple of gifts.
I'll be seventy on Dec. 6th.
After dinner they helped me get the tree out of the basement and get it decorated. So the decorating was done by my wife and me with the help of grandchildren ages 21, 13, 10 and 6. Some of the ornaments are kinda bunched up together and they tend to be mostly near the bottom of the tree.

I got a message that my picture is too large to upload so you'll have to check it out here:

I hope you dont mind I took the liberty of fixing your post so we call all see your beautiful tree Sam, thanks for posting a picture!

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Sam

Of course, no Christmas tree thread would be complete without the classic Jeremiah 10:1-10 passage;

1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Some years ago I was licensed with a group called The Church of Jesus Christ, Pentecostal Faith. Headquarters were in Niles, Michigan. Our Presiding Bishop was G.R. Brock in Indianapolis, iN. He was dead against Christmas trees and cited Jeremiah 10 for his proof text.

A family in Corbin, KY were part of this organization also. One year they decided to go out in the woods and get a Christmas tree even though they'd heard preaching against it. I'm not sure if they were still in this organization at that time or not. There were two preachers in the family --the Dad and an adult son. The Dad was adamantly against getting a tree and called them a bunch of heathens. The son proved from Scripture that they were not violating the teaching of the Bible. He quoted verse 3 where it says, "for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, " and stated, "See, the Bible says one cutteth a tree out of the forest. We didn't do that. It was not just one cutting the tree. There was a whole bunch of us."

[HeavenlyOne]

I'd take a pic of mine, but the cats would destroy it before the camera came out!

Pray for me. I have nothing to bow to this year.