This is not a Normal 4-to-Read…
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t Mondays, Everyday Servant shares links to four posts from Christian bloggers…
Posts that range from thoughtful to funny to challenging.
This week… there is one topic… Black Friday…
Why doesn’t somebody write a Broadway musical about Black Friday?
Think about it…
Black Friday has the colors of the season…
The green of money changing hands in the store…
The red of eyes made blurry by staying up all night to be first in line…
Black Friday has all the merriment of the season…
Can’t you imagine a Black Friday classic film?
Picture the line of dancers swirling through the store…
Pushing their carts before them…
Their hands full of Christmas goodies purloined from other shoppers’ carts.
I don’t know of a Black Friday Musical, so I’m linking to something even better …
Posts about what really happened on Black Friday 2014…
Three links point to actual news stories about the crazy things people really did on our annual day of greed.
The fourth is from Blogger and Sunday school teacher Karen Brown. You won’t believe how one student answered a question about gratitude…
Did Black Friday fever even invade the Sunday school classroom?
Read and make your own decision…1. What? The staid Brits?
The people who invented the idea of calmly queuing…
Did even they leave all decorum behind on Black Friday? Say it isn’t so!
Look! Over there…
Is that the twinkling of a merry string of Christmas lights?
Or is it the flashing of the blue lights of a police car outside a mall on Black Friday?
Read the Guardian for the answer…
2. Surely nothing like that happened in Washington D.C., the very seat of power in the United States…
You might want to see this video before making a quick conclusion…
(scuffles and fist fight and black eyes… Oh, My!)
3. According to ABC… Black Friday Fever is everywhere…
4. Sunday school?
Did materialism and greed even make an appearance in Sunday school during the Thanksgiving season?
