It’s audacious, really, to celebrate Christmas, to sing “Joy to the World” in the midst of war. We can, though, for we know ...

Within me, the voice that spoke, initially in a whisper but with gradually intensifying volume, uttered these four words: ...

After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...

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Christmastime has arrived in all its luster, but I’m having one of those nights when sleeping has become a wild ambition. The ...

Without acknowledging our grief, we won’t experience the deep comfort of releasing our sorrows to the suffering Savior ...

Echoing Christ’s God-and-Mammon juxtaposition, Paul draws a connection between money and worship, arguing that the choice to ...

Call it the “Christmas cloud”—that unwelcome shadow suspended over many in December. For the Christian, it’s hard to admit.

E.M. Welcher is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota. He is the author of Advent: A Thread in the ...

That is Advent’s promise, one Christ’s birth made manifest as “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John ...

Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity crisis. The chaos can give us a chance to rediscover what we've lost.

The gospel in question portrays Jesus as a young, undisciplined child who flexes his powers a little too freely and is ...