A New Blog

The intention of this blog is to give me a way to share things that I have written or produced for others to use if they wish.  You may wonder why it is called "Christ Bearer."  It is because my name, Christopher, means Christ bearer, and because my vocation, pastor, makes me a Christ bearer.  It seemed appropriate.

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