What was it like to be the role player, the one no one remembers in the Christmas story? How did it feel to have your dreams shattered? To grow up, love God, obey His Law, put in a good, hard day’s …
No Room at the Inn
…she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the …
What Doesn’t Change
I reported for my first day of work at Grace Community School on January 2, 2002. I came in the front door, newly-minted Development Director, ready for work in my fresh-pressed lawyer suit, eager to …
The Knowable God
In Jackie Hill Perry’s wonderful book Holier Than Thou, she asks readers to imagine they are Hebrews in the wilderness at the base of Mount Horeb, waiting to meet and hear from a holy, almighty God. …
God’s Grandmothers
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his …
A Good Father
I love Christmas break because it gives me a chance to do things I don’t get to do very often during the rest of the school year, like watch movies. I love movies, and it’s fun to catch up on a long …