Some options for those who want to give a little something besides cash. [Click title to read more.]
Category: Christmas
The Christian’s Only Necessary Christmas To-Do List
Here is my list of five absolutely necessary things I need to do over the holidays to make sure that my heart is where it needs to be. [Click title to read more.]
Italian Nativities Changed The Way I Think of Christmas
As much as we attempt to sanctify it and memorialize it and put it on a pedestal, everything about the night of Christ's birth was as much human as holy. [Click title to read more.]
People Don’t Just Get Hungry At Christmas
At the end of the holiday season, many Christians are overwhelmed by the blitz of giving. The problem is that need doesn't just occur during the holiday season; it's year round, and hunger doesn't fade when the Christmas lights do. [Click title to read more.]
Why Church Matters
Regardless of what we criticize or change, Christmas Eve reminded me of two things: that church is simple, and that church is necessary. [Click title to read more.]
Merry Christmases
Despite what television tells us, Christmas needn't look any one particular way. The only thing that Christmases need share is a recognition of the glory in Luke 2:14, the miracle about which angels sang. [Click title to read more.]
Ten Things You Must Do Before Christmas
It's coming. Christmas, I mean. It's coming. For some of us - like me, who celebrate a week early or a week late with out-of-town friends and family - it's already arrived. Here, then, is a list of Super-Important Things You Absolutely Must Do Before Or By Christmas. [Click title to read more.]
Christmas Is A Beginning
Christians--instinctively, I think--tend to divide up our understanding of Jesus-as-baby versus Jesus-as-savior. The cosmic moment, the violent sacrifice, the grand and undying love: we save our contemplation of those things for Easter. But they started in the manger. [Click title to read more.]
Christmas Giveaway!
A thank-you giveaway of 10 Christmas snowflake ornaments! [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 