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The Everlasting Arms

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The same God who says “I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you” (Isaiah 48:4); the same God who promises to be our “dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms” (Deuteronomy 33:27) so we can sing “Leaning, Leaning, Leaning on the...

3-Fold Conviction

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Christmas involves a three-fold conviction of faith: Jesus has come, born to a humble couple in the village of Bethlehem, during the reign of Caesar Augustus: Jesus comes now, saying “Follow me.. . . Love one another.” Jesus comes again in glory at the end of history...

Christmas and New Year

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Why is it people want a Christmas they’ll never forget and a New Year’s they’ll never remember?   To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership, Coaching...

A Little Bit of Scrooge

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To prove there is a little of “Scrooge” in all of us, here is some of Charles Dickens’ earliest writing, in the form of a letter to the editor of the Athenaeum on 07 January 1932. Dickens was obviously fed up with the cold and snow:                 Perhaps, somebody...

Benedictions

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Two Christmas Eve Benedictions:   1) I love roads. Something about horizons and unknowns, boundaries and possibilities. But the best road ever made was the road to Bethlehem.   2) On this night, O Holy Night, “I kiss my hand to the stars” (poet Gerard Manley Hopkins)....