Have you ever been far from home at Christmas? Whose Christmas angel can you be? "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5:16).
Read more..Angels: we marvel at their words and authority, and we tremble at their greatness and awesomeness, but...
Read more..Could I honestly say, “Just give me Jesus”? What about my Christian community? Family? Books? Familiar worship? My culture? Career?
Read more..You know what it’s like to ride with someone who knows all the back roads. The “easy” roads. The “secret” way to get places. But you also know the truth. It’s not really “secret.” It’s just not commonly used.
Read more..One evening as a boy studied the photo of his father he said, “I wish daddy would just step out of the picture and be here with me now.”
Read more..This is Christmas. This is Emmanuel: God with us. This is the advent - the coming of the Lord. God invading history. The one who invented it coming into it and submitting himself to all his own rules.
Read more..How interesting that God chose shepherds as recipients of the “birth announcement” of the Savior. Shepherds weren’t men who worshipped in sanctuaries with stained glass windows.
Read more..God's Plan for humanity....it was crafted in the halls of heaven and carried out on the plains of earth. Only holiness could have imagined it.
Read more..God throws us lifelines . . . in the form of other believers. Mary had Elizabeth. God never intended for you to walk alone!
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