It’s Christmas time and many of us are busy with last minute gifts, family get-togethers, and for Christians, remembering the reason we celebrate this holiday: God coming down and dwelling …
Hanukkah’s Story of Courage
It’s rarely easy being Jewish. From the time the Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC, the Jewish people have been under Gentile domination. Even today every country on Earth …
The Star and the King
The Magi, or sometimes translated “wise men,” came to worship the King of the Jews only using a star and the Scripture as their guide. After Jesus was born in …
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
I have vivid memories of singing in church as a child. When the piano and organ began the introduction to a song I would try to guess the song before …
Bring Us Back To You (Lamentations 4—5)
The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BC smashed everything that had given God’s chosen people a sense of national identity. The process had not been quick, however. …
