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Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus lay down His sweet head. The stars in the bright sky looked down where He lay, The ...

When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived.Then when the days stipulated by Moses ...

Last year when I was traveling back home after being on an overseas mission trip, a colleague announced, “Can you believe Christmas is just a week away?”Without thinking, I quickly ...

I remember when I first started following Jesus, I did what most people do. I opened the Bible. I didn’t really have much of a context of where to start ...

Matthew 2:2 reads, Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw His star as it rose, and we have come to worship Him.Not too many children are so ...

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, ...

Definitions of RevivalThis understanding of gospel renewal differs from two widespread views of what revival is. The first view sees revival primarily as the adding of the extraordinary operations of ...

The Logos Became SarxAdvent is a strange time of year.We look forward to the Christmas, the coming of Christ, and then when we get to Christmas, we remember what happened ...

I used to be a journaling dropout.I would get on a kick to write something every day or would take a challenge to journal during my quiet time every day.Then ...

Recently I studied the life of Mary, the mother of Christ, with women all in the midst of life changes. Each of us was carrying a burden; each of us ...

Starting something new can be as difficult for parents as it is for children.Our busy lives often make creating a new discipline hard to imagine. But the richness of a ...

On that first Christmas night the Bible tells us about the angel coming to those fearful shepherds and saying, “Fear not, I bring you good news.” What is the real ...

The Word of God is so deep that theologians can dig their entire life and never reach the bottom of its wisdom, yet shallow enough that a beginner can completely ...

Fake Laughing Out of Christian LoveWe’re supposed to do this, right?As Christians, the compassionate, Christlike thing to do when someone says something unfunny is to pretend it is funny and ...

An old man sat on the edge of the road approaching the village. When he saw me (David), he started. He slowly stood up and came to meet me.“Finally!” he ...

Some books are more like friends than inanimate leather-bound pages. Streams in the Desert and Jesus Calling have been my friends for years now and my ratty, well-loved copies sit ...