I woke early this morning, after Christmas, to look back! The presents are gone. The stockings are on the floor. Just like that, the day we look forward to all year long, is gone. Soon lights will come down and the songs, well they have already disappeared. As I sit and ponder this time of…
I thought I got it! Every Christmas, I look at and read about the nativity scene but the true deep reality of it never fully came clear. In that time a stable was simply a lien-to and perhaps the most disgusting structure in town. Under its’ roof the dirtiest place would have been the manger. …
His teaching was troublesome. As we observe so many nativity scenes they bring to mind the special nature of our Saviors birth. Each one made different but each one containing the same picture. His teaching was on the inaccuracy of the many nativities. Were the wisemen really there? Did they lay the gifts before the…
God I feel so lost. I come to you asking for help… asking for guidance. I’m not sure what to do. My future wife is pregnant, and it is not mine. How can I stay with her? She is disgraced among our people. How can I be expected to raise this baby, as if it…
We live in a country that is divided. Not since the civil war has there been so much division. The Christ I love is about unity. As we celebrate the coming of our Savior my thoughts turn to nothing but his arrival. The Christ that came to save us is about love. When Jesus came…
Grace! So misunderstood. So foreign by our standards. A gift that we cannot comprehended. No strings… no agenda… no effort to earn… simply free. Grace cannot be understood by any record of merits and demerits. It cannot be held to patterns of buying, losing, earning, achieving, or manipulating, which is where most of us live…
I have watched her for forty years as she moves thru the day. Beautiful… heart of gold… and a love for God. I am so blessed! I look at pictures of my children and grandkids. All healthy… all good and loving people. I am so blessed! I behold the land that we have been made…
The line from the movie was: “Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.” As that hit me, my heart pondered, and the movie fell away. When your faith becomes strong, you began to see Jesus in everyplace and everyone. During Jesus last moments, the lessons he gave us were some of the most important. That is…
For four thousand years the Jewish population and Israel have been persecuted. God made his son Jewish. Why? He could have chosen any race of people. Any ethnicity or any group. If you study the words of Paul you find a glimpse into why God chose the Jewish people, and that of Israel. By doing…