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No one but God knows what the future holds.

Wars are won by many battles large and small, fought in many places.

Let's do some Bible listening in 2013.

Vertical Church is a book with both strengths and weaknesses—very helpful strengths and very dangerous weaknesses. If you can thinking discerningly to embrace what is helpful and reject what is so very unhelpful, you may well find the effort rewarding.

It’s that time of year again; time to look back at the year that was, and look forward to the year ahead.

How a lesbian professor became a pastor's wife and the homeschooling mom of four adopted children.

Here are 47 sermons suitable for the start of a new year.

Recently a Christian educator was talking about the FCC outlawing loud television commercials.

We made it! We're in Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph and Jesus.

In a complex, "always on" world, perhaps what we need to remember is that we need to intentionally unplug every now and then.

We were born for Christmas because on Christmas Christ was born for us.

The Mayans were wrong about the calendar. But they weren’t wrong that the arc of history is headed toward something cataclysmic.

Christmas reminds us that God is God and we're not.

God does not accept the status quo!

God is shaking the nations so that the world will be ready for the coming of Christ.

In a time of obvious tragedy, the unbearable lightness of Christmas seems absurd to the watching world.

When you study the era that Dickens wrote about when he published A Christmas Carol in 1843, you realize that it was dark and evil. And that the Scrooge character was not the buffoonish, almost cartoon-like character some of the movies made him out to be.

For the moment, the baby sleeps in Bethlehem surrounded by regal gifts and foreign eyes wide with wonder.

Through your tears, lift up your eyes and look again to Bethlehem. That sleeping child will rise to battle and no one will stand against him.

What Herod craved, the baby received.