Christmas comes and goes, but waiting remains. We celebrate that Christ has come but we also confess that all is not yet made new. The light has dawned as shadows still linger. This is the tension of our Christian hope in our 21st-century, post-pandemic, age of AI, Trumpian America. Advent teaches us how to liveContinue reading “Friend: Advent Isn’t Over—We’re Still Waiting”
When Enemies Laid Down Their Weapons: The Christmas Truce of 1914
In December of 1914, the world was already exhausted by war. The First World War had begun only months earlier, yet the trenches across Europe were already carved deep with fear, grief, and unimaginable loss. Men stood on opposite sides of barbed wire, enemies by uniform, strangers by circumstance, each told that the other wasContinue reading “When Enemies Laid Down Their Weapons: The Christmas Truce of 1914”
What Is God Showing You as You Look Forward to a New Year?
An Advent Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer (ESV) Advent places us in a sacred tension between what has been and what is coming. As the year draws to a close, many of us feel the pull to plan, resolve, and prepare. Jesus offers us a prayer that slows us down, centers us, and teaches usContinue reading “What Is God Showing You as You Look Forward to a New Year?”
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