I will make breath enter you and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37:5   God created life with His breath. He breathed His clean, pure, empowering breath and shaped lifeless clay into a breathing, thinking human being. It was this same breath that pumped tiny lungs and opened Jesus' nostrils to utter his first cry into this world. Our Creator God reversed the earth-to-heaven journey we will make after death and sent Jesus from Heaven to  earth all in a breath.  It was one power

Magi from the east came . . . to worship him. Matthew 2:1,2 The longest journey we ever made at Christmas on land was from Bryan, Texas, to Warm Springs, Georgia, where my husband's parents lived. It was 840 miles, which made it a two-day trip for our small family. But it was worth every mile to see family we didn't see as often as we wanted to. The Magi get the prize for taking the longest journey at the first Christmas. While no one knows exactly where the Magi originated

Yet I hold this against you, You have forsaken the love you had at first. Revelation 2:4 I know . . . that you are neither cold nor hot. Revelation 3:15 Christmas isn't a time for neutrality. No one looks forward to a low-key, gray-toned Christmas. We want color and excitement, music and laughter. We are anything but neutral about Christmas. Besides, neutral ity doesn't ask much. Neutrality means neither for nor against. It is a ho-hum response. If you're neutral, you're

Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.  Luke 3:4 We have begun the Christmas season.  Are you already behind with everything you wanted to accomplish? Today, we need another message.  It is the voice of wilderness John confronting the emptiness that our push and rush produce.  He cries today using Isaiah’s words, “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight paths for him.”  This isn’t a call to decorate, overspend, or overwork.  This is a desperate plea to

I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.  Galatians...

The angel said to [Mary], “The Lord is with you.”  Luke 1:28b The Lord will stay with you as long a you stay with !  2 Chronicles 15:2b...

Yet I hold this against you, You have forsaken the love you had at first. Revelation 2:4 I know . . . that you are neither cold nor hot....

In the last five years, we have all lost what we believed would not change. The pandemic stole a sense of reliability. We understand...

I spent a frightening time in the hospital supporting our daughter one Christmas. She developed a heart infection that was on the brink...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Sunday is the beginning of Advent. It feels like they run together. but maybe they should. Gratitude...

In most of the stories of Christmas, one angel comes to deliver a message. So why did the armies of heaven show up for the shepherds? Did...

Bethlehem…Egypt…Nazareth…the desert…Samaria… Jerusalem…Gethsemane…to the cross…into heaven. Luke 2:4; Mat. 2:13, 23, 4:1; John 4:4; Mark...

Magi from the east came . . . to worship him. Matthew 2:1,2 The Magi made the longest trip. They are the ones who receive the award for...

Though he was in the world . . . the world did not recognize him. John 1:10 The saddest part of the Christmas story is how many didn’t...

I don’t like the panic that finds easy entrance into our world at Christmas. The stressed-out shoppers looking for bargains and finding...