On Christmas Day, Jesus became weak in human form so that we might find life through him and his ultimate power. Gabrielle ...
As the shepherds heard the angel’s words of comfort and joy, awestruck—perhaps doing their best to comfort their frightened ...
THERE WAS A MOMENT, in the aftermath of my husband’s premature death, when I thought about Jesus coming back and longed for ...
The disaster arrives in 587 B.C. as Babylon destroys Jerusalem, bringing swift destruction to what had been eroding for ...
Matthew tells us that “all Jerusalem” felt the upheaval in Herod’s soul, where insecurity and contempt burned through ...
Ecclesiastes bears testimony to the reality that there is a specific time for everything—for planting and sowing; for crying ...
The French word inspirer, the source of the English word inspiration, is literally translated as breath. In the pause between ...
THE PROPHETIC VISIONS splintered through Simeon’s mind in a fraction of a second as a teenage girl and young man walked up ...
I, too, came to fear this darkness in the grip of a chronic illness, which nearly took my life in 2021, as sepsis raged ...
All of these foreshadow the most surprising reversal of all. God was born as a baby to usher in the upside-down kingdom of ...
In Matthew’s gospel, Joseph presents us with a different vantage point. While Mary nurtured life toward its external revelation, Joseph is called as a father to witness something outside of himself ...
However, simply being exposed to Scripture or knowing the Bible isn’t enough. The chief priests and teachers of the law knew that a star had announced the birth of the great king and that this ...