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...
22
Dec
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...
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...
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...
17
Dec
Worshiping God Face-On
It was 1958. I was a restless, adventurous nine-year-old, and I was on a steamship, sailing with my mother and grandmother to Bermuda. When we woke up...
16
Dec
Hear the Angels Sing
There’s a good reason why I love that Christmas Carol, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. It’s the 3rd verse: "O you beneath life's crushing load...
15
Dec
Third Sunday of Advent
I don’t know about you, but all the Christmas shopping ads seem trivial in light of the current events we’ve seen in recent months. Natural disasters...
9
Dec
Steward Your Suffering
Vicki is my quadriplegic friend who is quite the warrior. She has a hard life, but for her, enduring tough trials with a hard-fought-for smile...
8
Dec
Second Sunday of Advent
Every year I pride myself on keeping the month of December clear in my Planner. I’ll glance over on my desk and admire all those white blocks...
