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He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. How creepy is that, right? Sounds more like a Stephen King novel than a Christmas song. The idea that someone sees everything we do can be unsettling. That’s one reason someone invented Santa. To help parents keep little ones in line when they left …[ read more ]

If you believe all the commercials and holiday specials, Christmas is about making dreams come true. Funny, no one told Jesus. He didn’t come to work for Walt Disney; He came to fulfill His Father’s will. Ask Mary. It wasn’t her dream to start her married life under a cloud of suspicion. Ask Joseph. It …[ read more ]

I woke to the headline that a church in Massachusetts has added what many are touting as a “modern twist” to their nativity. In fact, their addition is actually quite spot-on to the historical birth of Jesus. This church added lists of mass shootings to the walls behind Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus, hoping to raise our consciousness …[ read more ]

You and I encounter people every day who monitor our responses, anticipating judgment or condemnation, simply because of what they’ve heard about Christians. Most of these individuals believe truth is relative, everyone should do pretty much as they please (except we shouldn’t bully or tell others what to do), and that Christians have created God, …[ read more ]

A simple phrase at the start of Luke’s gospel sucker-punched the solar plexus of my soul. Luke is the logical gospel for the season, so I dove in headlong, not suspecting any immediate surprise in such familiar territory. Suddenly, there it was, this throbbing heart hunger, identified and called out by the author/physician at the …[ read more ]