“Windows On Christmas” (Part Three)

“Windows On Christmas” (Part Three)

This week we examine the familiar Christmas story again, but through the eyes of the folks that were there. Monday we saw the perspective of the angels (exaltation) and the perspective... Read More »
“Windows On Christmas” (Part Two)

“Windows On Christmas” (Part Two)

This week we examine the familiar Christmas story again, but through the eyes of the folks that were there. Yesterday we saw the perspective of the angels (exaltation) and the... Read More »

What Child Is This?

One of our most beloved Christmas carols was written in 1865 by William Dix, an Englishman who managed a maritime insurance company and loved to write hymns. Sung to the English melody... Read More »

The Joy of Redemption

For thirty straight Christmas seasons at the Omaha Community Playhouse, Dick Boyd never missed a performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol.... Read More »
“Windows On Christmas” (Part One)

“Windows On Christmas” (Part One)

With Thanksgiving behind us, Christmas is surely lurking on the horizon, making this an appropriate time to calibrate our thinking about this, the “most wonderful time of the... Read More »
On Yaks and Other Matters of Faith

On Yaks and Other Matters of Faith

We have been talking about faith ever since the Lord came. It is not exhausted yet, and God forbid that I should think that I know yet what faith is; although I know a little what it... Read More »
Hosea Loves Gomer

Hosea Loves Gomer

~from Hosea (c. 760 BC) And now, here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to start all over again. I’m taking her back out into the... Read More »
“The Portrait Of Changed Lives” (Part Three)

“The Portrait Of Changed Lives” (Part Three)

This week, we are looking at 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10, and seeing what it looks like when lives are transformed by Christ.  Monday we considered the source of that... Read More »
“The Portrait Of Changed Lives” (Part Two)

“The Portrait Of Changed Lives” (Part Two)

This week, we are looking at 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10, and seeing what it looks like when lives are transformed by Christ. Yesterday we considered the source of that... Read More »

The Glory of Humility

I remember sitting one Christmas season in London listening to Handel’s Messiah, with a full chorus singing about the day when “the glory of the Lord shall be... Read More »
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