Experiencing God

There is a splendid moment in the movie Jurassic Park, when world-class paleontologist Allen Grant, who has devoted his life to the study of dinosaurs, ...

Waiting for a Savior

In his book, Detours: Sometimes Rough Roads Lead to Right Places, Clark Cothern tells of a Christmas when his family encountered an unexpected house guest. ...

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 ...

Light of Christmas

About twenty years ago there was a house near the entrance of our subdivision that kept their Christmas lights burning long after the season was past. ...

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 ...

Holy Gift Exchange

Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man--His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God--when we present our bodies ...

The "Yes" of Christmas

I realized that songs, good feelings, beautiful liturgies, nice presents, big dinners, and many sweet words do not make Christmas. Christmas is saying ...

Christmas Tree: A Poor Substitute

The Christmas tree has taken the place of the altar in too much of our modern Christmas observance.

Going to the Ultimate Home

There fared a mother driven forth

Out of an inn to roam;

In the place where she was homeless

All men are at home.

The crazy stable close at hand,

With shaking ...

Very Few Understand Christmas

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the ass understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. ...