28 Dec Prayer Changes Things
We are never without hope because we are never without prayer. Prayer confesses, “God can handle it, and since he can,...
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27 Dec God Provides
God is enough. Isn’t this the message of Moses and Joshua and the journey to the Promised Land? Who opened...
24 Dec Every Day a Christmas
When Christ was born, so was our hope. This is why I love Christmas. The event invites us to believe the wildest...
23 Dec The Story of Christmas
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable – crude in some spots, smelly in others, not much glamour. You do your...
22 Dec Why I Love Christmas
Hollywood would recast the Christmas story. Joseph’s collar is way too blue, Mary is green from inexperience. The couple’s star power doesn’t match...
21 Dec Bought with a High Price
The Christmas tree hunt is on! The preferences are different, but the desire is the same – we want the perfect Christmas tree. You search for the right one, you walk the rows, you examine them from all angles. This one is perfect! God does the same. He...
20 Dec The Bethlehem Promise
A remarkable gift can arrive in an unremarkable package. One did in Bethlehem. We don’t often think of Paul in our Christmas reflections, yet we should. His words in Philippians 2:5-11 are the Bible’s most eloquent summary of the Bethlehem promise: “Who, being in very nature God,...
17 Dec God Holds It All Together
Christmas is a season of interruptions. Some we enjoy, some we don’t. You may be facing an interruption during this season of life. What you wanted and what you received do not match, and now you’re troubled and anxious. Everything inside you and every voice around you says, “Get out....
16 Dec You Need a Savior
If we could save ourselves why would we need a Savior? Jesus didn’t enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves. As a Boy Scout, I earned a lifesaving merit badge. Fact is, the only people I saved were other...
28 May The New Kingdom
Jesus sent a message to an imprisoned John the Baptist. “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, and the deaf hear” (Matthew 11:5). Jesus sent John a message about a unique, invisible kingdom, where the rejected are received: the blind,...
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