Archives for December 2011

As we approach the end of our second calendar year together, I rejoice that I can wholeheartedly agree with this commendation from the Apostle Paul: "We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ." -1 T...

A few years ago Pastor Sam Crabtree wrote a letter to Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis in which he asked this question, What would be different if Jesus had never been born? As I list some of the reasons he wrote in his letter, and tweak them and add a few of my own, consider the treasure that is contained in Bethlehem's manger....

Our Christmas Concert this weekend, Hope of the World, exalts Jesus as the Son whom God sent into the world "not to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him" (John 3:17). As we celebrate the coming of our Savior into our broken world, let us rejoice that he welcomes people like Rahab into his family-for we are all a lot more like Raha...