Why I Love a Service of Lessons and Carols at Christmas Time
One of the most beloved musical Christmas traditions in the English speaking world is the service known as “the festival of nine lessons and…
Advent
The Best Way To End One Year And Start Another: Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas and New Years
How does your year end? For many of us, the year closes with a rush of holidays in rapid succession—Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s…
Reformed Classics: The Valley of Vision (A Great Devotional Tool For the New Year)
The way we pray reveals a lot about what we believe and about the depth of our faith. Is ours a God-centered faith, or…
The Arrival of a Death Camp Liberator: Seeing Christmas in a Different Light
This has not been a typical December for me. I’ve had two friends die. In fact, I just returned from the funeral of one…
Lingering Seasonal Thoughts on the Tenth Day of Christmas
By most counts Christmas is over. Even Christian radio has stopped playing Christmas songs. In the marketplace green and red decorations are coming down…
The Greatness of Jesus
It is usually little moments, experiences or phrases in the Christmas season that bring the biggest, most treasured spiritual insights. For me, they might…
Tree Cutting and the Search for the Perfect (Christmas) Tree
Last year this time, we took a trip not far from our home in Colorado up to Vail Pass to hunt for our Christmas…
Why Do We Need the Lausanne Movement? (Lausanne/Cape Town Memo #14)
After a week here in Cape Town at Lausanne III, two more convictions stand out. First, the evangelical movement worldwide is growing, outpacing many…
The Shift of the Christian Center (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #13)
Where is the center of the Christian world? I remember having a conversation with my dad about this back in the 1980s. At the…
The Call for Humility, Integrity and Simplicity Among World Christian Leaders (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #12)
“What do you think is the greatest obstacle to God’s desire for evangelization of the world?” asked morning speaker Chris Wright. “It’s not other…