What is Lent all about, anyway?
Today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), the last day before the Lenten season of the Christian calendar. My first exposure to Lent was with the 2002 film 40 Days…
Obedience Precedes Understanding
What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering…
On epiphany and baptism
Naturally, we would all prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so devoid of angels. Jim Harrison, 20th Century American poet. An epiphany is, literally, a “manifestation.”…
Family Outcast
In the Christmas story, because of the census ordered by Caesar, Joseph returns to his hometown of Bethlehem with his pregnant fiancée, Mary. When they arrive, they discover “there is…
The Christmas Story
We’ve synthesized the accounts of the Christmas story from Matthew and Luke here to give you a more rounded picture of the events that occurred surrounding the birth of Jesus….
Give Well
My first Christmas as the father of two children was the absolute pinnacle of parental excitement. I had it in my mind that this was going to be a year…
12 Days of Christmas
We do a couple of cool things as a family for Christmas to try and combat the craze of consumerism. We divide the gifts we’ve purchased (or received from…
How to be together
We are heading into the major holiday season with Thanksgiving nearly upon us. At this time of countless gatherings, we thought we’d offer some thoughts on being together. The following…
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