Why come as a man?

  A thought for Christmas day, when we celebrate one of the most shocking things God ever did, namely, invade our world to save us by becoming one of us. This is from the classic book by church father Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word: Some may then ask,...

Thoughts from Uganda

Julianne Heilman is one of our friends from the young adults fellowship who’s serving the Lord in another country. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s her latest blog post: “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in...

Should we wish we had a Pope?

On Friday last week my new issue of Time magazine arrived with a painting of Pope Francis on the cover, because he’s Time’s 2013 “Person of the Year.” I read and highlighted the cover story, because it’s fascinating and, I think,...

What’s up for this coming Monday night?

I forgot to announce this on Monday… but we will have Young Adults this coming Monday (12/23) It’s the night before Christmas Eve, so most of us will be at church the next day singing and thinking Christmas (that’s why we did our singing night this...