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When Christmas Doesn’t Feel Merry: How the Real Story Meets Us in Every Season Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

When Christmas Doesn’t Feel Merry: How the Real Story Meets Us in Every Season

On why the first Christmas speaks to both joy and hardship, and how Jesus meets us in every circumstance. We often imagine Christmas as warm,…
Rafael Manzanares
Rafael ManzanaresDecember 16, 2025
From Most High to Most Low History & Holidays

From Most High to Most Low

Christmas tells us something staggering about God. Human glory is measured by ascent. It is all about climbing higher, achieving more, reaching the top. We…
Richard Cimino
Richard CiminoDecember 9, 2025
Comforting Words to Share Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

Comforting Words to Share

This life will have unavoidable pain, sorrow and grief. In light of this universal truth, it is an interesting philosophical, ethical, moral, and existential matter…
Bruce Zachary
Bruce ZacharyDecember 20, 2024
What Christmas Looks Like History & Holidays

What Christmas Looks Like

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. Actually, not really for me. I live in Florida, and it was eighty degrees…
Brian Kelly
Brian KellyDecember 17, 2024
Sir Titus Salt, Stewardship, and Christmas Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

Sir Titus Salt, Stewardship, and Christmas

Sir Titus Salt Sir Titus Salt was born in Morley (near Leeds, Bradford, and Wakefield in the U.K.) in 1803 and died in 1876. Educated…
James Travis
James TravisDecember 10, 2024
Fiction, Saviors and Reality on This Christmas History & Holidays

Fiction, Saviors and Reality on This Christmas

Fiction We love fiction, don't we? We love to see how in the middle of the fight between good and evil, when evil seems to…
Denisa Stanciu
Denisa StanciuDecember 25, 2021
No Small Thoughts About Christ’s Birth: Come to Reconcile Us to Himself History & Holidays

No Small Thoughts About Christ’s Birth: Come to Reconcile Us to Himself

It’s at this time of year that we celebrate the Incarnation of Jesus, or to put it another way: the coming of God to earth…
Simon Lawrenson
Simon LawrensonDecember 24, 2021
Yonder Breaks – The Hope of Christmas in a Weary World History & Holidays

Yonder Breaks – The Hope of Christmas in a Weary World

One of my favorite Christmas carols is “O Holy Night,” mostly because I love the first verse: Long lay the world in sin and error…
Nick Cady
Nick CadyDecember 21, 2021
Our Mediator: An Advent Reflection History & Holidays

Our Mediator: An Advent Reflection

In the previous reflection, we considered how the flesh of Jesus served as a veil to God’s glory. In this reflection, we will see how…
Keith Fortenberry
Keith FortenberryDecember 24, 2020
Hidden Glory: An Advent Reflection History & Holidays

Hidden Glory: An Advent Reflection

"…By a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh" (Hebrews 10:20). As we celebrate Christmas, we…
Keith Fortenberry
Keith FortenberryDecember 22, 2020
The Star of Bethlehem in Our Lifetime Culture

The Star of Bethlehem in Our Lifetime

Perhaps the most significant celestial event in history —the Star of Bethlehem—is recurring in our lifetime—just in time for Christmas 2020! "On December 21, Jupiter…
Ray Bentley
Ray BentleyDecember 21, 2020
Christmas Truce: The Day World War I Stopped History & Holidays

Christmas Truce: The Day World War I Stopped

There are acts of unplanned kindness that break through the humdrum of daily existence and shine a new sense of light. Infused with grace, these…
Mike Dente
Mike DenteDecember 13, 2020
From the Christmas Tree to the Tree of Calvary: The Meaning Behind Advent Christian Living

From the Christmas Tree to the Tree of Calvary: The Meaning Behind Advent

What does "advent" mean? Well, the word itself means: "The arrival of a notable person or thing." At this time of year we celebrate the…
Jody Ponce
Jody PonceDecember 10, 2020
The End of Fear: An Advent Meditation History & Holidays

The End of Fear: An Advent Meditation

Traditionally, Christians have remembered the four Sundays before Christmas Day as Sundays of Advent, often lighting a series of four candles over those days. In…
David Guzik
David GuzikDecember 2, 2020
Christmas Edition: J.K. Rowling, Charlie Brown Theology, Tidings of Comfort & More Culture

Christmas Edition: J.K. Rowling, Charlie Brown Theology, Tidings of Comfort & More

"Just Drop the Blanket"– The Gospel Coalition"But while working so diligently to learn those lines, there is one important thing I didn’t notice then, and…
Calvary Chapel
Calvary ChapelDecember 24, 2019
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