No Antiseptic Evangelism

Today, thanks to a small Canadian software company, high school students can get through biology class without smelling like formaldehyde. While students ...

Christ’s Humble Birth

In his best-selling book, The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey contrasts the humility that characterized Jesus’ royal visit to planet earth with ...

Jesus "Translates" the Father

In Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado writes:

There were a few occasions in Brazil when I served as a translator for an English speaker. He stood before the audience, ...

Jesus Was Not Recognized

Cary Grant once told how he was walking along a street and met a fellow whose eyes locked onto him with excitement. The man said, "Wait a minute, ...

Remaking God in Our Image

Our society has taken Jesus and recreated him in our own cultural image. When I hear Jesus being proclaimed from the television stations across our country, ...

Love Came Down at Christmas

Love came down at Christmas,

love all lovely, love divine;

love was born at Christmas--

Star and angels gave the sign.

Worship we the Godhead,

love incarnate, ...

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 ...

Looking into Our Eyes

Joe Torre had been a catcher and a broadcast announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals. Shortly after he was named manager, according to the Pittsburgh Press, ...

Audience of Atheists

One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, ...

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 ...