O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth. (Psalm 8:1, NASB) We think of Christmas as a time of celebration, with expressions of love for family, delicious food, laughter, and sharing a year’s worth of memories. We usually pray that these occasions will be inked indelibly in our memories. I …
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9, NIV) My wife and I have eleven precious grandchildren who get so excited during the Christmas season that they affect the entire family. Sometimes this obscures the true …
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7, NASB) My most memorable Christmas story was my own. It was Christmas Day in 1957. The year that I accepted the Lord as my Savior, I had left home to attend a military boarding school. I went from dependence on my parents to strict …
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 16:16, NIV) The babe in Bethlehem, whom we celebrate at Christmas, is “Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and … his kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:32–33). “Messiah” (Hebrew) in …
“When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.” (Matthew 2:3, NIV) Jesus was born in the Roman Empire in a time of peace and prosperity, a time of literary giants such as Virgil and Ovid. But the most prominent headline was in Bethlehem rather than Rome. A baby—of all things—stirred …
“Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16, NIV). The babe in Bethlehem, whom we celebrate at Christmas, is “Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and … his kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:32–33). “Messiah” (Hebrew) in …