Posts tagged “Jesus”
Jesus suffered for you
In 2017, 60 miles north of London, archaeologists discovered the ancient remains of a man who had been crucified by the Romans, proven by…
The marvelous motivation of our Good Shepherd
Why do shepherds shepherd? Why would anyone choose to spend those long days and weary nights watching the flocks and searching for the strays?…
The problem with being human
According to Jesus, the problem with being human is that humans are like sheep. Sheep, despite all they offer our world (wool, milk, meat),…
Care to the last detail
His baby was sick. In fact, she was dying. Those of you who have gone through something like this know there is no greater…
Jesus makes you truly great
What does it mean to be truly great? If you were to ask Merriam-Webster, it would say greatness is the quality of being exceptionally…
Every knee. Every tongue.
“They went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place…
The smell of Christmas
We got a real Christmas tree this year. I’ve never seen my husband act more like Chevy Chase in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation than…
God + man = Jesus (and really good news!)
Ready for a mental workout? Then read the lyrics of this classic Christmas carol—“Christ, by highest heaven adored/Christ, the everlasting Lord/late in time behold…
Hark! (a.k.a. Hey!)
Way back in 1739, Charles Wesley wrote a Christmas song soaked with Scripture. If “Away in a Manger” is like Cool Whip on a…
“Away” in a manger
If there’s one lyric that grabs my attention at Christmas, it’s the “away” in “Away in a Manger.” “Away in a manger, no crib…
God with us
Last summer my family saw the war tent of General George Washington. We sat in an intimate theatre in Philadelphia’s Museum of the American…
Jesus is the LIGHT of the world
You can learn a lot about Jesus from thinking about what light is like. In one of his most famous self-defining statements, Jesus declared,…