The entire purpose of Jesus becoming human and making his home among us is summarized in the passage from Isaiah read by Jesus.
Children massacred. Mothers grieving. Families displaced. Tyrants enraged. Merry Christmas!
Matthew 2 points to the intrigue and suspicion that often was a part of life among the inhabitants of the King’s retinue.
John, full of judgment, rebukes the presumptuous, righteous Jew who felt their heritage guaranteed their salvation.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis, the Pevensie children undertake a harrowing sail into “smooth, solid blackness.”
I recently read that it is biologically impossible to feel anxiety and sing at the same time.
A friend of Philip Yancey’s once described to him the difference between a church service and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
From the start, we see that Mary and Joseph are doing everything in their power to follow the Law first passed down in the days of Moses.