Merry Christmas, all!
The other writers of ChristianResearchNetwork.Info and I put together some thoughts for all on Christmas and the meaning of Immanuel, God With Us, if you are interested in checking it out…
Blessings to you,
Chris

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great [...]

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
So he got up, took the child and his mother and [...]

OK. So I’m a father. And I am often proud of my children. (Though there have been many times where ‘pride’ would not be the operative word, though love might remain constant). In general, I’ve tried to keep my kids out of my blogging (as often the family photos and stories [...]

Question: All other things being equal and athletic ability unknown, if I gave you a list of 60 Canadian 18-year-old boys and their basic bios (birthday, hometown, siblings, income level, academic achievement, etc.) and told you to pick out for me the 20 who were most likely to be hockey stars, what biographical trait would [...]

I’ve got a new article up over at CRN.Info on Jackson Browne’s The Rebel Jesus.  Since it’s part of a multi-author series, I don’t cross-post here.  However, since it is about Christmas (and since I think Mom doesn’t always see my articles go up over there – hi mom!) I thought it would be nice [...]

I have to say, I got a chuckle out of one of Ingrid’s recent articles, where she claims that CBS’ 48 Hours contacted her (and that she turned them down) for an interview for an upcoming show on a camp that is training 700 kids to become Christian Missionaries.
In explaining why she turned them down, [...]

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, [...]

In Part I of this series, we examined the need to view the entire Christmas story arc, and in Part II we discussed the probability of Jesus’ birthday on Sukkot (mid-September to early-October), and in Part III, we took a closer look at Mary and Joseph and their outcast status.
Today, we will be viewing the [...]