Tagged: Christmas

Two Sides of the Season

Thanksgiving and Christmas: lots of yummy food and indigestion, automatically giving thanks, rushing around to buy gifts. Counting off how many of the things on your list you get done. The most wonderful time of the year, right? Recently God challenged me with the true wonder of the season. He used a golden nugget hidden in a scripture I usually skim because I think it doesn’t apply to me. Matthew 10:5-14. I’m not going to… Read More

Christmas – Just One Word: Jesus

"The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." John 1:14 The powerful Word who spoken into blackness, "Let there be light." The glorious Word who filled the temple with fire. The tender Word who spoke to Mary and Joseph. This power, glory, and tenderness became flesh and walked among us. I love these beautiful truths expressed by Ruth Rosen of Jews for Jesus: "How amazing that God became less, in order to be like us...… Read More

How cold it must have been…

A beautiful nativity set given to me by my sister. I planned on musing about the 3 kings in today's post, but then I came across this poem. It stirred my heart and I hope it does yours as well. How cold it must have been that night, I can see the stars, if I close my eyes. Listen!  I hear the soft night air, rustling the leaves. Or is it the rustle of angel's wings?… Read More

Christmas Question #2: Why Shepherds?

  These little egg-shaped figures roll over easily but the detail is amazing.   If you’d been the angel God handpicked to announce Jesus’ birth, where would you have gone? Certainly, you would’ve been warned about King Herod, but, after him, the sky’s the limit, so to speak. Of course, there was a synagogue in Bethlehem so you could’ve barged in there, quoted Isaiah’s prophesy, and then yelled, “What do you know, Isaiah was right!… Read More