Experiencing the Beauty of Peace in Bethlehem

For reasons I cannot quite remember (perhaps the guidebooks or the guide himself told us it wasn't much to get worked up about), I wasn't excited ...

The Cock Crows the Whole Night Through on Christmas

While writing about the Nativity in his book The Faces of Jesus, author and pastor Frederick Buechner reflects on an early scene in Shakespeare's ...

More Mind-boggling Than the Virgin Birth

The virgin birth is far less mind-boggling than the power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

—U.S. author Madeline L'Engle ...

Philip Yancey on Observing a Mellow, Domesticated Christmas

When the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci went to China in the sixteenth century, he brought along samples of religious art to illustrate the Christian ...

The Courageous Sacrifice of King Jesus

Most kingdoms do anything they can to protect their king. This is the unspoken premise of the game of chess, for example. When the king falls, the kingdom ...

Proclaiming King Jesus

At the end of his sermon on Isaiah 9:6, Ken Langley, pastor of Christ Community Church in Zion, Illinois, shared this powerful thought about the life ...

Relying on a Resurrecting God

We are not to be surprised if living as Christians brings us to the place where we find we are at the end of our own resources, and that we are called ...

Augustine on the Purpose of the Incarnation

God became a man for this purpose: since you, a human being, could not reach God, but you can reach other humans, you might now reach God through a man. ...

Author Harry Blamires on Self-Help

In the Christian life, nothing, nothing at all, can be purchased at the do-it-yourself shop.

—Author Harry Blamires

A Lesson from Ants on Sacrifice

Certain ants in South and Central American rainforests will lie down in the potholes that stand between their army and food. Their bodies form a makeshift ...