Christmas Eve
Imagine walking through your front door and inhaling the mouth-watering aroma of Christmas turkey roasting in the oven...
24
Dec
23
Dec
A Lesson From Mary
In the Christmas story in Luke chapter 2, just look at what Mary does. After the shepherds came racing to the stable, hands waving, all...
23
Dec
Family Retreat: Transforming Lives with Love and Support
Josiah, who has Down syndrome, started coming to Family Retreat in 2011. His mother, Julie, says, “The rest is history!”...
22
Dec
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Ask people just who baby Jesus is, and you'll be surprised at the answers you hear. What child is this? Well, think of the answers people in the Bible...
21
Dec
If I Had Been There
Of Christmas Eve, Martin Luther once wrote, “There are some of us who think to ourselves, ‘If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the...
20
Dec
An Impossibility
We talk a lot about the Incarnation as Christmas draws near. Incarnation is a Latin word that means “taking flesh.” God “took flesh” and became the human...
20
Dec
Family Retreat: Where Families Facing Disability Find Love and Belonging
God uses life experiences to impact peoples’ hearts in wondrous ways. God has used disability to do a work in the hearts of Scott, Christina, and...
19
Dec
Be Holy
It was only our high school madrigal choir singing a Gregorian chant. But the beautiful, haunting discords and harmonies in the minor keys swelled my...
19
Dec
God’s Love and Hope for Families with Disabilities
I am so ready to celebrate our Savior’s birth with you, and I’m praying a fresh level of joy will fill our hearts and homes...
18
Dec
A Laughing Lord?
The Son of Man was completely and utterly human, which means of course that he experienced the entire range of human emotions—emotions untainted by sin...
