The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. – Luke 2:20 It is a wonderful Christmas Day! Rebekah and I wish for all of you a very merry and blessed Christmas. Or, like my granddaughter Beks epitomizes, Very Merry, Very…
Just a girl, just a carpenter. Nothing any more remarkable than faithfulness and trust. Nothing outside of what is possible when any one of us makes the transformational decision to follow Jesus.
These pictures are some of the best I have taken during worship. Enjoy, and let me know if you want any of the digital negatives.
God ripping apart the boundary of separation and reaching into time and space to find me, then gently parting the soil and planting the possibility for redemption.
Read more Christmas Eve – where God reaches in and plants hope!
The big news of the day was Rebekah's return to church. The first two services always involve simply too many people for a quiet reentry, so she came to 11:00 candlelight.
Read more Rebekah makes it back to church – Christmas Eve in Wake Forest
I'm convinced that we are in danger of loosing the kind of quality of life that pretty much requires sacrifice and long-term anticipation. And without anticipation we begin to lose all the way around. Fact is, some things are simply better because of the wait, and the deliberate preparation, and the longing, and the sacrifice along the way.
Read more Christmas Eve – so what do you really want under the tree?
So Christmas morning dawns, quiet, contemplative, and full, the jubilant songs of praise from Christmas Eve echoing still, hearts full and spirits resonating with the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love that defined Advent. Yesterday evening, for the first time in 33-years of ministry, Rebekah and I were involved in three services of…
It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold! Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all gracious King! The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. There are so many stories great about Christmas.…
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the…
It’s Christmas Eve. And today is the day I get to find out if my Christmas spirituality is A) all about Jesus, or B) all about tradition. Let me explain. Rebekah has been in ministry now for 31-plus years. This means that today is Christmas Eve #32 since we left graduate school and headed to Trinity…
