This Christmas share the message of God’s gift to the world with the warm, inspiring stories found in a small magazine called the Christmas Digest. Often humorous, always touching, this collection of true anecdotes relays the reason for the season in a fresh, uplifting manner. Complete with the Christmas Story from Luke’s gospel, the magazine [...]

How do you face the Christmas season when it doesn’t look the way it used to?

“Merry Christmas!” That’s what it says on the cards I send out every December.  If anybody calls them ‘holiday cards’ they are going to get a harsh reprimand. It’s a Christmas card. I’ve gotten lots of cards that wish me “Happy Holidays” and some that convey sincere “Season’s Greetings”, but the ones I cherish are [...]

This collection of lessons is designed to help you take a fresh look at several Christmas carols, spanning several countries and several centuries. Each study stands on its own, though it is a thematic collection. Take one or several, as you prepare your heart for this special season of the year when we remember the [...]

In a world that seems not only to be changing, but even to be dissolving, there are some tens of millions of us who want Christmas to be the same….with the same old greeting “Merry Christmas” and no other. We long for the abiding love among men of good will which the season brings…believing in [...]

If there’s one question I hear over and over again this time of year it’s this: what do you want for Christmas?  Amid the gift and the wrappings there is something about this time of year that gives us permission to dream, to be extravagant to hope for something more. Christmas is a time for [...]

This year might seem like a good time to skip Christmas. Despair around the Christmas season is a reality for many, but don’t give up hope. As you journey through Christmastime, here are three ways you can lift your spirits. Take the next step: Getting through Christmas when you’re home alone A reminder of the [...]

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It was a simple scene that first Christmas – a rough room, a young couple, and nothing but a feeding trough to put the child in. It was probably quite cold and with family far away there was little help. Not exactly the Hallmark moment we like to show in Christmas pageants. And yet this rustic [...]

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16) My friend Emilie Barnes has a Christmas tea in her home every year. They invite friends and neighbors for this special time.? Her husband Bob does the cooking [...]