A Christmas Prayer

  Thank you, Father, for sending your word made flesh to that smelly Bethlehem stable. Your odd, nearly unbelievable advent.  Your lethal weapon against this world’s destructive ruler. A soft-skinned flailing infant. Your weakness stronger than our strength. Thank you for embodied hope. For peace and promise. For abundant expectation in the kingdom that has come, …

What About Jesus?

In our sin-sick world, many situations begin well but end badly. Many marriages begin in great joy but end in cold silence. Babies, once received with hope, become old alcoholics wandering in alleyways. A job we thought would finally use our gifts becomes merely a means of survival. And yet, in God’s hands, situations that …