Entertaining Angels: Red Letter Words, The Hip Hostess, The Reluctant Entertainer GIVEAWAY!
I’m SO excited for this giveaway today! It’s amazing, and it’s all about hospitality, and my friends Dee and Debbie are joining me.
We live in a culture where most of us don’t have strangers coming to our door asking for food. During the Depression, however, my grandparents did have this happen. I remember my Grandma sharing stories with me of how she’d feed them, give them coffee, share God with them, and send them on their way. I will never forget how later in life when I’d read this verse (Heb. 13:2), I’d think of Grandma, but it would also get me thinking not only about my life, but our culture today.
Years ago when I started blogging about entertaining and hospitality, I asked readers what kind of people they entertained the most in their homes.
The popular answers were:
1. FAMILY
2. PEOPLE FROM CHURCH
It actually made me sad that we don’t reach out more to neighbors, people of different faiths, backgrounds, and cultures.
Why do we stuff hospitality into a box, making it so pretty, perfectly safe, and always predictable? (Many of us rarely even open up our homes!)
So today Dee from Red Letter Words and Debbie from The Hip Hostess and I are giving away 3 items to ONE LUCKY WINNER.
We want to challenge you to think about hospitality with FRESH EYES.
We want to encourage you to do something different, radical, and courageous when it comes to opening your home for a meal.
It’s up to you to decide what it will be.
The cool GIVEAWAY:
Red Letter Words
Hebrews 13:2 Entertaining Angels gallery wrapped canvas
12×12
Here’s how Dee’s work is mounted. Down-right classy!
(Read the “Design Story” behind “Entertaining Angels,” HERE. A must-read!)
The Hip Hostess
4 BRAND NEW spring prints (below) – the winner gets to CHOOSE ONE!
This is fun! Do you know any of these bloggers wearing HH Aprons?
BTW, the NEW Annual “Hurry Spring” Sale starts today!
Use this Promo Code: SPRING25 for 25% OFF thru Mar 31
The Reluctant Entertainer
ONE signed copy (Yes, I’m wearing a Hip Hostess apron in my book! The Nester took this picture, but I know she won’t mind me using it here.)
COMMENT TO WIN all 3 amazing gifts that will help you with hospitality!
How do you feel about hospitality and does Hebrews 13:2 challenge you?
Do you always have the same people over for dinner or have you branched out?
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I LOVE to entertain friends/family/neighbors, everyone is welcome! I love to share my home and good food with even better friends!
I love this verse and would love to have it on my wall as a reminder. I serve as a missionary in Botswana so we’ve practiced a lot of hospitality to many that we don’t know very well at all. I can say my natural self likes to host people that I know, but when I host people that I don’t know as well I often times come away from it feeling so much more fulfilled because the conversations were rich and meaningful.
We mostly entertain people from church, but we try to make sure that they’re NEW people from church… Does that count? ;-) Having people over for dinner & games is one of our favorite ways to get to know people. I think the biggest challenge to always keeping my home open to guests is keeping it tidy. It’s something I’m working on. I would love a copy of RE for other tips too! :)
Oh, and I’m also subscribed to your RSS feed! :-)
It challenges me to step outside my comfort zone and be more willing to open our home to people we don’t know well but might like to get to know better. I have also been thinking that I need to work on making more of an effort to entertain in general. I feel like we are always so busy and we don’t have time to entertain. But I know life will always be busy, we just need to make an effort.
I think hospitality comes naturally to me. My mother always stressed the importance of being polite and taking care of your guests. I actually love having people over for meals or just for drinks. It’s fun to make up some appetizers or to cook something you normally don’t. (At least for me it is, I live alone so it’s always nice to have an excuse to cook without having days of leftovers.) I usually end up with the same core of friends who take turns coming to visit (my apartment is small). The quote from Hebrews is a great one to live by. You never know who the person you’re entertaining will end up being in the future.
We usually entertain friends and family. We have talked about reaching out to some church members we don’t know or who are new to our church, but haven’t done it yet. The Hebrews verse has always challenged me, now I just need to meet the challenge.
It’s true, though I love to entertain and have folks into our home, I must admit that it is always the same crowd. Mostly family, close friends, and every now and again a friend from work. This has really inspired me to reach out and expand our circle!
I LOVE your blog. I get so many wonderful ideas and am excited to open my door more often to strangers. I do no have a copy of your book and would love to have one. Also the Red Letter Words and the Hip Hostess Apron would be AWESOME.
Thank you all!!!
Love this giveaway! The last few years my husband and I became “intent” on inviting people into our home that we might otherwise not engage with. This isn’t always easy but we were stuck in a rut only inviting people that we were comfortable being around. God is doing a work in our hearts, giving us a love for His people especially those that are “hard” to love.
I just “liked” your facebook page Sandy! YEH!
What a grand give-away!! Thanks you gals!
I love to entertain a little out of my comfort zone. Makes for interesting conversations that always challenge my view of life and others.
Thanks Sandy!
Due to the schedule that my husband & I work entertaining proves to be very difficult. But, we are always trying to welcome people over. I don’t care if its work, or my house gets messy, if the opportunity arises to bless someone I jump on it ;)
What a fun give-away!
We have people over– friends and people from church. This is a good reminder to keep my eyes open and go outside my “box”.
Thank you!!!
Lynn G.
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I love to entertain and share good food with family and friends. We do branch out and invite all different types of people and love it when we find new friends.
This directly applies to the Bible study that I did this morning. That Matt 28:19 in the earlier translations really means, “As you are going make disciples in all the nations”. Meaning that in all your tasks seek opportunities to share the grace of God.
I love that verse in Hebrews.
Great giveaway!!
I would have to admit that it is hard to show hospitality to those you do not know well. I would love to entertain more, but it seems as if my husband’s expectations of the home are not met and he does not want anyone to see how we live. If I invite people over, it is up to me to have the place spotless and not looked lived in. This makes it difficult, especially since we have 2 dogs that spend their days in and out of the house. (Thus the reason I tuned into your blog.) With that verse, I try to show hospitality in other ways when I can, but it does tend to ‘convict’ at times.
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Heather, I’m sorry to hear that your husband wants perfection before entertaining. I want to encourage you with the story of a friend who never had a beautifully clean house – it wasn’t that she was a hoarder but there was generally always quite a bit of clutter around. Yet her heart was right” and she was so welcoming. I’ll admit that while I was sometimes critical (inside my head) of her mess, I LOVED spending time in her home. She always made you feel so welcome and cherished. We’ve lost touch and I miss connecting with her. I have so far to go in being that type of “entertainer”, so I speak from a place of sisterhood. Don’t give up, it’s so easy to retreat into ourselves and lately I’m finding it rather boring in that place.
It’s taken me a long time to get comfortable with my messy home and just invite people in. Showing kindness and welcoming people into our lives changes everyone involved.Such a perfect way to reach out to neighbors.
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Just tweeted about it!
Great reminder to be open with our homes and lives. Entertaining can be risky, and I’m not always willing to take that risk with people we don’t know, but I want to! Thanks for the encouragement, AND for the great giveaway opportunity! Fingers crossed!
I usually have the same friends and family over…it’s hard for me to invite strangers into my home!
This is a great reminder and truthfully, a challenge for me. I’ve known this verse, but for some reason I forget about the “stranger” part. Hospitality is a little challenging to me, but I always enjoy the times we have our friends over. This is a great reminder that God wants us to stretch out and seek new people to have over, as well. Obviously it’s tougher to do, but I need to remember what you’ve said before – it’s not about us. Who can we be a blessing to?