God didn’t stand at a distance and simply tell us we are loved. Instead, God came to us in the flesh, as Jesus. That's the reminder of Christmas.
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.