There is something special about Christmas music for me. I know there are some who think it should only be listened to after Thanksgiving. If you are around at various times throughout the year, you will find Christmas music playing as I study. There is something special about the songs that remind me just how much… Continue Reading Not just a four-week message
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘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); ‘For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called… Continue Reading Remember Why We Celebrate Our Holidays
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(1) In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (2) (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) (3) And everyone went to their own town to register. (4) So Joseph also went up from the town of… Continue Reading The Real Reason for the Christmas Season
The story of Christmas is also the story of two kings — one who is born in 70ish BC and the other who has always been King. In Luke 1:5 we read, “in the days of Herod.” This would be the man the historian Josephus calls Herod the Great. Herod was born into a family… Continue Reading Two kings, one kingdom
Tonight I watched the Little Drummer Boy again. I am always humbled that a small destitute boy brings the only thing he has to the newborn Savior, the playing of his drum. I remember years ago at the end of a Christmas program an elderly lady gushing about the message that night. Her only disappointment was that… Continue Reading Remembering the greatest gift at Christmas
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.’ (Proverbs 24:14); ‘But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.’ (Micah 7:7)… Continue Reading Remember What Christmas Really Is About, Not What It Has Become
