In the movie The Santa Clause, the elf named Judy is having a discussion with Scott Calvin who simply cannot believe that he’s seeing what he’s seeing. Far from believing he’s the new Santa, he thinks he needs a CAT scan. He states emphatically, “I stopped believing in Santa Claus a long time ago.” Then […]
Oh, to have been a shepherd and witnessed that angel choir! I’m sure those shepherds were never the same. When they were old and sitting around the bar drinking their Mogen David, they’d recall the glory days: “Remember when…” When we were just minding our own business. When life was filled with wonder. Waiting for […]
Have you ever read a mystery that was so good, you simply couldn’t put it down? And then resolution to the mystery was so surprising that you had to go back and re-read the entire thing to see how, yes indeed, the pieces all fit together with such precision that it was simply brilliant? The […]
Do you suppose God laughs at how clever He is? At His own wisdom, kind of delighting in it? At knowing beforehand how He would work everything out and defeat Satan—who for a moment at our rebellion in Eden, gained a foothold in the lives of men and women? At the wisdom and beauty in […]
When I think of the plan of God, I’m picturing the game of chess. Not that I’ve played much chess or am particularly good at it. But one of the reasons I don’t sleep very much is that my mind is on creative overdrive …all the time. I run on adrenaline and analogy. So, chess–and […]
Do you ever feel like Charlie Brown, not feeling happy, and wondering if anyone can tell you what Christmas is all about? It’s not easy to keep perspective in a culture that assaults the holy with the secular at every turn. Isaiah says that our response to the light dawning ought to be joy. Not […]
Driving back from Florida over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we encountered 3 different traffic stoppages. Traffic on exit ramps had backed up onto the expressway. It was a total standstill. Why? “Black Friday” shoppers were out in force, waiting in long traffic lines at the malls, on the roads leading to the malls, and on […]
The Light Incognito: The Savior came but no one figured it out. Not the shepherds who were told by angels. Not even Jesus’ disciples truly caught on until after He’d died and risen from the dead. No one saw the Light and understood this mystery of God’s good news for all mankind. Not His mother […]
Enter your home at night and what’s the first thing you do? Turn on the light. When it’s dark, we stumble over things, bump into furniture, and usually something bad happens…we break things or get some really nasty bruises. Or encounter a spider. (I’m not a big fan of spiders.) When it comes to seeing […]
Strange, isn’t it, to think that God would plan on sending Jesus to die for human sin even before a single human being had been created? Yet, that’s what the Bible teaches. It should change our attitude from gloom of sin’s darkness to an attitude of Timeless Hope for eternal life. And it explains why this […]
