God in the Straw

Theodosius Harnack, Luther scholar of note, said that for Luther the imperative was to have "God deep in the flesh." Christmas celebrates just ...

More Than an Economic High

Our whole society ... is focused on the celebration of Christmas. With the excessive commercialism which begins in our country immediately after Halloween ...

The Pattern of Bethlehem

At Christmas we say much of the meaning of His coming to earth, the mission, the message, but we sometimes overlook the manner of his Advent. God set ...

Only through Incarnation

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone he would not. Incarnate, he could and did.

The Weakest Link

Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all--a Baby.

Because God So Loved

Jesus--a simple name with so much power and meaning, but on that night so long ago, the tiny baby, wrapped by Mary in swaddling clothes, waving little ...

The Staggering Miracle of Christ

In the super-miracle of the Incarnation, our very Creator, Preserver, Judge, becomes our Kinsman, Sinbearer, Redeemer! Of all miracles and mysteries this ...

On the Incarnation

The King Visits the Earth:

The champion of orthodoxy on why the Word became flesh.

What was God to do in face of the dehumanizing of humankind, this universal ...

A Liturgy on the Incarnation

He whom none may touch is seized;

He who looses Adam from the curse is bound.

He who tries the hearts and inner thoughts of man is unjustly brought to trial; ...

His Voice and His Touch

In the prologue to Leadership Jazz, Max DePree writes:

Esther, my wife, and I have a granddaughter named Zoe, the Greek word for life. She was born prematurely ...