As a year passes into the history books and another new year begins, one of the news items that catches my attention is the list of famous people who died in the previous year. Magazines such as World Magazine report such lists of people who passed away in the previous year. They listed their names under the headline: Departures. It included people […]
When we think of Christmas, we rightly turn in our Bibles to Matthew and Luke and read about Joseph and Mary, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the Shepherds, Wise Men, the Inn Keeper, Herod, and all the other characters in the Christmas story. However, there are other passages of Scripture — the back stories such as Hebrews 4:14 – 5:10 — that give us […]
In this Christmas message, “Jesus the Generous God,” Pastor Kevin takes a look at 2 Corinthians 8:9 as one of the back-drop passages of the Christmas story. Unlike the accounts of the Christmas story that we read about from Matthew & Luke, this passage allows us to see Christmas from the Godward side. It helps […]