Tagged: God with Us

We live, love, and celebrate the birth of Jesus in times of great division and strife. I’ve recently taken to studying the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah along with the writing of the prophets of those days. I’ve much to say about this in the weeks ahead, but Jesus is calling me out to …[ read more ]

Sometimes Christians go to jail. It’s funny that I was thinking about this on Sunday morning before news of the arrest of ten Baptist American missionaries in Haiti. A church sponsored team was detained at the Haiti/DR border and charged with child trafficking for trying to take thirty-three children to safety without proper documentation. I …[ read more ]

Have you ever felt alone in a crowd? Have you ever sat in a room full of people and felt saturated with loneliness? When my children were young and encountered the occasional week-end when no friends were available for plans, they would despair and complain that they hated time alone. My exhortation was always the …[ read more ]

Being WITH. So, Sunday was the first day of advent and the advent of my new Christmas tradition – choosing daily for the 40 days of advent to be WITH God and to be WITH another. It’s easy to begin such a venture on a Sunday. There was plenty of time to focus on God …[ read more ]

It’s that time again. All of us who love the Lord will wrestle with the coming season. How best to honor this time we’ve chosen to celebrate the human birth of the Son of God? Some of us will bemoan the commercialism that has overtaken the holy day and scale back. Others will pull out …[ read more ]