With the start of a new year most people look at it as a clean slate, an opportunity to make a fresh start, to forget the flaws and failures and hardships and mishaps of the previous year and to set n...  Read More

There was something amazing about Jesus, something undeniable, something shining and bright. The final candle in the advent wreath is the Christ candle, and just as a candle brightly shines forth to b...  Read More

Like so many other things, angels are a central component to many Christmas decorations and scenes. Cards and lawns and shelves are adorned with nativity scenes that showcase a young mother and father...  Read More

The third week of advent is arriving, and as such, we are looking at joy and at shepherds. On the surface, it is an amazing and unusual thing that God chose to announce the birth of the Messiah, the f...  Read More

Bread is life. It is sustenance. It is a symbol of peace. It is a symbol of friendship. The Christmas story begins in a town called “House of Bread.” Jesus was, and is, the Bread of Life. He brings pe...  Read More

His purpose and plan, the Truth, was that He would provide a way to reunify Himself with us. God with us is the truth of God proclaimed throughout eternity....  Read More

When we look at our lives, God truly has blessed us abundantly, just as He promises in John 10:10. That abundance may look different in your life than it does in mine, and we may not have everything t...  Read More

Sometimes, God allows us to go through times of difficulty or frustration or annoyance or exhaustion or pain or confusion, and it has nothing to do with us. The hardship that we are facing is not abou...  Read More

If we are Christians we stand under His banner, so proudly display that banner and don’t muddy it with smear or hatred, don’t neglect it out of fear and anxiety, and don’t outshine it with love and pr...  Read More

When sin entered the world, sin being anything that goes against God’s design and intended purpose for us, humanity fell under a curse, not a Mummy Curse, but a Sin Curse. We were no longer doing what...  Read More

Loving God with all your strength means that you don’t merely gain head knowledge of God, but you actually put what you learned into action. You change your behavior. You sacrifice. You help people....  Read More

God is both approachable and knowable. While we can never fully know Him. He invites us to gain knowledge and wisdom and to use our minds in our love of Him....  Read More