When Christmas Doesn’t Feel Merry: How the Real Story Meets Us in Every Season
On why the first Christmas speaks to both joy and hardship, and how Jesus meets us in every circumstance. We often imagine Christmas as warm,…
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On why the first Christmas speaks to both joy and hardship, and how Jesus meets us in every circumstance. We often imagine Christmas as warm,…
Read article →Christmas tells us something staggering about God. Human glory is measured by ascent. It is all about climbing higher, achieving more, reaching the top. We…
Read article →Sir Titus Salt was born in Morley (near Leeds, Bradford, and Wakefield in the U.K.) in 1803 and died in 1876. Educated at local grammar school, he took up work in the wool and mill industry in 1820.…
Read article →Fiction We love fiction, don’t we? We love to see how in the middle of the fight between good and evil, when evil seems to…
Read article →It’s at this time of year that we celebrate the Incarnation of Jesus, or to put it another way: the coming of God to earth…
Read article →In the previous reflection, we considered how the flesh of Jesus served as a veil to God’s glory. In this reflection, we will see how…
Read article →“…By a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh” (Hebrews 10:20). As we celebrate Christmas, we…
Read article →Perhaps the most significant celestial event in history —the Star of Bethlehem—is recurring in our lifetime—just in time for Christmas 2020! “On December 21, Jupiter…
Read article →What does “advent” mean? Well, the word itself means: “The arrival of a notable person or thing.” At this time of year we celebrate the…
Read article →Traditionally, Christians have remembered the four Sundays before Christmas Day as Sundays of Advent, often lighting a series of four candles over those days. In…
Read article →Each year many Christians are faced with the decision of what to do about the holidays. Can they celebrate with everyone else or should they…
Read article →“Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple…and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years. Then…
Read article →“That day the Spirit led [Simeon] to the temple. So when Mary and Joseph came to present the baby Jesus to the Lord as the…
Read article →“Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often” (Luke 2:19). All mothers keep “baby books.” But Mary’s journal of Jesus’…
Read article →“When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this thing that has happened, which…
Read article →“There were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance…
Read article →“And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for…
Read article →“Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: ‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth…
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