As the shepherds heard the angel’s words of comfort and joy, awestruck—perhaps doing their best to comfort their frightened ...

I, too, came to fear this darkness in the grip of a chronic illness, which nearly took my life in 2021, as sepsis raged ...

On Christmas Day, Jesus became weak in human form so that we might find life through him and his ultimate power. Gabrielle ...

THERE WAS A MOMENT, in the aftermath of my husband’s premature death, when I thought about Jesus coming back and longed for ...

The disaster arrives in 587 B.C. as Babylon destroys Jerusalem, bringing swift destruction to what had been eroding for ...

THE PROPHETIC VISIONS splintered through Simeon’s mind in a fraction of a second as a teenage girl and young man walked up ...

Matthew tells us that “all Jerusalem” felt the upheaval in Herod’s soul, where insecurity and contempt burned through ...

The French word inspirer, the source of the English word inspiration, is literally translated as breath. In the pause between ...

Ecclesiastes bears testimony to the reality that there is a specific time for everything—for planting and sowing; for crying ...

All of these foreshadow the most surprising reversal of all. God was born as a baby to usher in the upside-down kingdom of ...

How’s that for paving the way? And while I know that God equipped John with everything he needed before he was put on this earth, I can’t help but think about the weight and real human emotions that ...

This scene plays out in the marginalized communities today—immigrants, people of color, those struggling on the fringes. Yet, Mary’s song transcends circumstance. It whispers hope, reminding us that ...