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I CAN’T SHAKE THIS THOUGHT: Most of what we Christians do to celebrate Christmas isn’t Christian at all. Not if we punch our work on a timecard. Or tally the cost on a spreadsheet. Most of the time and money we put into Christmas is secular. …
I’VE BEEN WONDERING LATELY if some Christian publishers are going to go the way of newspapers. By “the way” I mean “away.” Is it just me, or do most booklovers think publishers are a tad late to the digital wave? As in wave goodbye. I’m as slow …
“I AM GABRIEL! I stand in the very presence of God” (Luke 1:19, NLT). That’s the only description the Bible gives of the angelic messenger God sent to earth on at least four occasions, spanning almost 600 years. The Bible names only one other angel, …
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I’ll grant you that. But here’s what’s going on. After Monday’s post “Christians, chill out about Christmas,” I got to chat a bit with some atheists about their view of Christmas. Most folks who …
FISH UNLUCKY enough to land in the Dead Sea will—within moments—show why it’s called the Dead Sea. They’ll go belly up. At least four times saltier than the ocean—higher by some recent measurements—Dead Sea water is one-quarter mineral. That’s partly …
WHY GET UPSET that the city outlaws nativity scenes on public property? Why complain about Wal-Mart greeters wishing us Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas? What’s the problem with public schools hosting Winter Festivals instead of Christmas …
SOME KIDS come prewired with a little extra energy. Take the little boy of my niece. Dylan. He’s the grandson of my little sis. Which makes him the great-grandson of my mom. Mom takes care of Dylan during the day. He’s not yet old enough …
AN ODD COINCIDENCE? While I was typing my post for yesterday, reminiscing about my kids and thinking about how grateful I am that God put them on my path, to travel with me through my life, I got an email from a reader. His name is Wayne. Wayne …
I’VE BEEN THINKING about my kids lately. Daughter and son. They’re grown and gone from the home now. One’s married. The other has it on the calendar. I’ve worked out of a home office for my entire freelance writing career, for the past 18 years. I …
DAD HAD BEEN FIGHTING non-Hodgkin’s lymphomia for 20 years when I got the call from Mom, 800 miles from where I lived in Kansas City. By the time I arrived at Akron General Medical Center the next afternoon, doctors concluded that a viral infection …
I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK of my fellow Christians. Could we please not watch Fox News so much? That channel doesn’t produce informed Christians. It produces misinformed, angry, intolerant Christians. We’ve already nailed that reputation. We don’t need …
IT WAS A SMALL VILLAGE David captured: Jebus, which soon became the City of David and later Jerusalem. No more than 2,500 people lived on this 11-acre piece of ground—about the size of 11 football fields: roughly 200 yards (180 m) wide and 600 yards …
