By Dr. Bill Patterson “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). Since Immanuel means “God with us,” it is easy to see why Matthew and Luke considered this a prophecy of the virgin birth given nearly 800 years before Jesus fulfilled […]
By T.R. Robertson In 2007 I travelled to Mexico on a mission trip with a group of college students. Our task that week was to complete several construction tasks for a small church in a rural village. I discovered that week just how soft I had allowed myself to become in the years since […]
By Tom Cash Can I brag on our grandchildren for a moment? While ministering in Indiana, we lived 75 miles from our son’s family. On a busy December Sunday afternoon, we traveled south to attend our grandkids’ Christmas program. Because of extra obligations that day, we walked through their church doors five minutes after […]
By Dan Lentz 1. In what places do you feel most at home at Christmastime? Read Luke 2:1-17. 2. Even though the Christmas story might be familiar, what still amazes you about the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth? 3. The key characters in the Christmas story were not in their homes at […]
By David Faust When the chemical engineer Alfred Nobel died in 1896, his will established a trust fund for rewarding outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, and medicine, as well as the famous Nobel Peace Prize. Ironically, Nobel gained a significant portion of his fortune from inventing dynamite and explosives used in war. It’s […]
