1. Embrace daily denial of self: Evaluate your life and ask where you need to surrender personal desires in favor of ...
Pastor Jeremiah Johnston reflects on Hebrews 10:5-7, a conversation between Jesus and God at the incarnation of Christ. Jesus ...
At the heart of Christmas and the Christian worldview is the Incarnation, when God took on flesh and, in Christ, became fully ...
As the service concludes, those gathered reflect on the beauty and mystical nature of Christ’s birth. They hold candles and ...
Could Jesus Christ have been born on 25 Kislev, the first night of Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — in 5 BC? It’s an ...
While Santa Claus, Christmas lights and evergreen trees are beautiful and fun, their greatest value is in their symbolism: ...
The holidays have a way of showing us what we truly treasure. Take a moment and put the focus where it belongs.
First, Stephen explicitly associates his death with Christ’s, repeating two of Jesus’ own words from the cross. He asks that ...
It is as a man I speak of Jesus this morning; and it rejoices my heart when I can view the human side of that glorious ...
The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born ...
“2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and ...