Devotional After Christmas, the church calendar enters twelve days of Epiphany – from Dec. 26 to Jan. 6. The dictionary defines an...

Devotional If you are a parent, you no doubt have had times when you wished you could read your child’s mind – to know what they were...

Devotional So far we've spent the month of December trying to see Christmas through the eyes of the people who actually lived it, and...

Devotional The story of Jesus saturates the Bible narrative and prophecies of His first Advent are found throughout the Old Testament....

Devotional Why include John the Baptist in the characters of Christmas? Think back to the beginning of the Christmas story in Luke – it...

Devotional Before we leave this story of the Wise Men, the horror in Bethlehem and the escape to Egypt, I have one question for you – how...

Devotional Gabriel, the angel sent by God to be His messenger and coordinator of all His plans, had one more task to complete the...

Devotional The story of the Star of Bethlehem appears only in the Book of Matthew. The Gospel tells us that a bright star appeared in the...

Devotional Every story needs a villain, and the Master storyteller doesn’t hold back in the Christmas story. This one has one doozy of a...

Devotional Soon after Simeon appears in the Temple to meet Jesus, we are told of an enigmatic prophetess named Anna (Greek form of...

Devotional Unlike most popular versions of the Nativity story, Luke’s doesn’t end at the manger, and the three Magi do not appear....

Devotional Every year on Christmas Eve my father would grab the family Bible, open it to the Gospel of Luke, and read the Christmas story...

Devotional Prophecy is an indispensable part of the Nativity story – with good reason. God has always spoken and acted in real history,...

Devotional Stop for a minute and think – you have great news, the best news ever. Who do you want to tell? Who do you go to first? I...

Devotional Angels serve a variety of roles in Scripture: they advocate, they protect, they make war, they announce, they teach, they...

Devotional In his book, An Angel’s Story, Max Lucado sets the scene for the animals. “I’ve heated the water!” ”No need to yell, Joseph. I...

Devotional In his book, An Angel’s Story, Max Lucado imagines the scene at the Inn in Bethany when Mary and Joseph arrive. “But don’t you...

Devotional The prophet Micah prophesied 700 years before the birth of Christ that he would be born in Bethlehem. Have you ever thought...

Devotional To understand Joseph’s perspective of the Christmas narrative, we need to understand the customs surrounding...

Devotional Gabriel shows up a third time in the Christmas narrative, this time to reassure Joseph, Mary’s betrothed, that she was not...