Guest Commentary

One of the familiar words that typically surround the Christmas season is “peace.” We see it on billboards, lit up in twinkling lights, and on charms worn around necks.

Race car driver Michael McDowell opens up about his Christian faith and shares his greatest victory. 

The incarnation is about the miraculous paradox of God’s approach, the utterly strange and beautiful way he came and “tabernacled” among us (John 1:14).

We need encounters with Jesus that impart courage and power to carry out whatever assignment God has given us in this life.

If we only knew how much God sustained us and protected us every moment of our lives, we might find our questions just as erroneous (though understandable) as the Son’s.

There is a good reason so many people jump to patience as their lesson of the season: it is a lesson that always bears repeating!

While it wasn’t Joseph’s plan or desire to be sold into slavery in Egypt, eventually, he realized that it was his destiny.

“Christians around the world can join the Jewish people in these public celebrations by lighting a candle in a place that’s visible to the public, recognizing that God alone deserves recognition for these miracles, and that just as He has protected Israel in the past, He will do so today and in the future."

In war, weather matters.

This year, the first night of Chanukah on December 7 coincides with two months since the brutal attack and massacre by Hamas on Israel.