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The King Who Meets Us in Our Deepest Need GospelHistory & Holidays

The King Who Meets Us in Our Deepest Need

Palm Sunday is the story of a King who arrived. Not just a King for a nation, not just a King for history, but a…
Rafael Manzanares
Rafael ManzanaresMarch 27, 2026
Saint Patrick’s Legacy: Modern Stories of Jesus Changing Lives in Ireland Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

Saint Patrick’s Legacy: Modern Stories of Jesus Changing Lives in Ireland

Amid the chaotic streams of Instagram reels and TikToks, there is a new Saint Patrick’s Day campaign in Ireland that can inspire a born-again heart,…
Danny Keating
Danny KeatingMarch 17, 2026
Give Me Jesus History & Holidays

Give Me Jesus

As one year fades into the history books and another begins, I always find myself making mental commitments to doing things differently in the year…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenDecember 30, 2025
“O Little Town of Bethlehem” History & Holidays

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”

One of the things I really enjoy about the Christmas season is hearing those wonderful Christmas Carols, the ones we not only sing in our…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenDecember 23, 2025
Hanukkah 2000 Years Ago History & Holidays

Hanukkah 2000 Years Ago

To all whose world was turned upside down October 7, 2023, there is Hope. Who Is the Messiah? While traveling in Israel awhile back, I…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenDecember 19, 2025
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
Christus Victor and the New Creation History & Holidays

Christus Victor and the New Creation

Christus Victor is the term used by many of the early church theologians—Irenaeus, Athanasius, Chrysostom, Augustine, Gregory, et al., to express the biblical teaching that…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenApril 15, 2025
Behold Your King: What Palm Sunday Teaches Us About True Worship History & Holidays

Behold Your King: What Palm Sunday Teaches Us About True Worship

As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, the crowds erupted in praise. They laid their cloaks on the road, waved palm branches, and shouted,…
Nick Cady
Nick CadyApril 8, 2025
The Joy of the Lord Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

The Joy of the Lord

We all know that Joy is one of the great themes of Christmas, and perhaps you’ve recently (this past Christmas season) heard a sermon or…
Brian Brodersen
Brian BrodersenJanuary 1, 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
Returning to Give Thanks: Learning from the Grateful Leper Christian LivingHistory & Holidays

Returning to Give Thanks: Learning from the Grateful Leper

“Thou that hast giv’n so much to me, Give one thing more, a gratefull heart: . . . . . . . . . .…
Nick Cady
Nick CadyNovember 26, 2024
Revisiting Missional Thinking on Halloween History & Holidays

Revisiting Missional Thinking on Halloween

Editor’s Note: This is a republication of Phil Metzger’s October 31, 2019 article. “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart…
Phil Metzger
Phil MetzgerOctober 31, 2024
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