No other season of the year extols the blessings of home quite like Christmas. It is a reminder that God offers each of us a home of love and acceptance.
Even though we really do try, we are unable to manufacture our own peace. But genuine peace is found in a person not a place.
Advent is a season defined by waiting, but this waiting is not passive.
On the last Sunday of Advent, we turn to John’s telling of the coming of God-in-the-flesh and the titles he uses to describe Jesus.
Immanuel: God with us. An earth-shaking name for the newborn in Bethlehem.