Christmas Spirit Doesn't Last

There's a problem with the Christmas spirit. You've noticed how it passes?

One of the most striking illustrations of this comes from a story told ...

The Greatest Christmas

Some businessmen are saying that this could be the greatest Christmas ever. I always thought that the first one was.

Keeping Christmas Christian

Christmas took over a pagan celebration, and now a non-Christian world is trying to make it into a purely secular festival again. But real Christians ...

Destroying the Evidence

It's a tough job trying to make Christmas nonreligious. ... To eliminate Christ from Christmas you would have to destroy all the evidence--including ...

God, A Child!

Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child? We should have conceived ...

The World's Greatest Hope

Have we ... reduced the stable scene to some cutesy little scenario that has no meaning left in it at all? Have we lost the sense of awe that there, in ...

Not in a Box

Christmas is the gift from heaven

Of God's Son given for free;

If Christmas isn't found in your heart,

You won't find it under the tree.

Coming Back to Life

This is a special anniversary for me. Seven years ago today, at this very hour, I was on the operating table in the Presbyterian Hospital, and they were ...

Christmas Betrayed

Millions of perfectly healthy and worthy men and women still keep Christmas; and do in all sincerity keep it holy as well as happy. But there are some, ...

The Truly Important

I often think: "A life is like a day; it goes by so fast. If I am so careless with my days, how can I be careful with my life?" I know that ...