Newborn Babe

What a paradox that a babe in a manger should be called mighty! Yet even as a baby, Jesus Christ revealed power. His birth affected the heavens as that ...

We Are Shepherds

I read about a little boy who was in his first Christmas pageant. He was 5. He was one of the shepherds--you know, they wear their bathrobes and their ...

The Mysterious Incarnation

In this poem written some 15 centuries ago, Augustine tried to capture the mystery of the Incarnation:

Maker of the sun,

He is made under the sun.

In the ...

Changing Places

The stunning point of Christmas is that God considered my needs and the worth of my relationship to Him to be sufficient cause to go through the trauma ...

A Stupendous and Astonishing Wonder

Christmas for millions is just "the holiday season." Are we losing the sense of marvel at the Christmas miracle? Why, this is the most stupendous ...

Incarnation's Meaning

The Son of God became man to enable men to become the sons of God.

Beyond Giving and Getting

Christmas has absolutely destroyed [the real] understanding of the Good News. It's trained people to believe that Christianity is fundamentally about ...

Something More at Christmas

What is supposed to be a time of peace and good will becomes, for some, a time when the reality of human greed and folly and cruelty mocks the lovely ...

Humbling the Glorified One

Jesus, the Christ, is the Eternal One, for in the fullness of time He humbled Himself. John's description is plain: the Word was made flesh and dwelt ...

God's Saving Humility

Christmas demands faith, because Christmas is a mystery. Our reason cannot succeed in trying to understand how God could possibly have loved us to such ...