Hope at Christmas

Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just ...

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 ...

Christmas Should Never Be Forgotten

I had an Uncle Van who was given to many rash statements, and one of the little things he said was, "There ain't nothing as over as Christmas." ...

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 ...

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 ...