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After Christmas
Maybe you're not over Christmas yet. Good! Yet whether you are or not, don't forget about God's purpose. Jesus came as a baby, yes, but He didn't stay a baby. He grew up living a sinless life to sacrifice Himself on our behalf so our impossible sin-debt could be paid....
Did They Know?
Around Christmas I sometimes hear the song, "Mary, Did You Know?" Recently I've wondered if anyone else knew. When Mary's and Joseph's families heard about Mary's pregnancy and the explanation, did they know what that meant? When Jesus was lying in the manger, did the...
Well What Do I Know?
We humans know a lot of things. We humans also think we know a lot of things. Throughout history we have had things all figured out, only to find we were wrong all this time. Things we were sure worked, we found out we only thought they worked. Like when people...
Time Travel to Jesus’ Birth
I wonder on and off about what it would be like if I could time travel to any point in the life of Jesus. I thought about it pretty seriously the other day. While any point in the life of Jesus would be particularly wondrous, especially His death and resurrection, the...
For Unto Us
Jesus the Son of God came to earth as God's gift of love to us, to save us from our sins. We like the way that sounds. It's true, but I was thinking about how gifts work, especially this one. When someone gives you a gift, it might be because they have to for Secret...
Manger, Cross, and Resurrection
Recently I've come to notice a juxtaposition in my mind of the major points of Jesus' life when He first came. Not that I don't know these major points of birth, death, and resurrection. They're just closer together in my head than usual. We like Jesus as a baby in...