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

Norman Rockwell’s 1943 oil painting, Freedom from Want, features a tableau of personalities around a dinner table. Their ...

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

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 ...

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

A friend’s request for a rent check called my dual loyalties into question. Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity ...

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

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

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

I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...