When the angel appeared to Mary, in Luke 1, there was no way she could have predicted what that revelation, in it's entirety, would mean for her or for Joseph.

The first Christmas wasn't celebrated until at least 300 years after the birth of Christ, but the first Christmas message was preached at least 4,000 years before the birth of Christ.

What you think about God determines what you think, say and do. Unfortunately, there is often dissonance between what we say we believe and what we actually believe.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. High thoughts or low thoughts about God determine how we view ourselves, how we view successes and failures in this world, how we view trouble in the world, and how we spend our energy, our efforts and our days.

Our culture has progressively become more and more post-Christian. We’ve all but lost our protective bubble of morality, and the voice of the Christian, and the authority of the Bible, has never seemed so out of place.

Like an employee being called out for not doing his job, it's easy for us to squander the life, resources and relationships God has given us.

Like a valuable possession in the hands of the naive, we often are found guilty of viewing those without Christ as less than or unworthy.

Like a teen calling "shotgun" we have become laser-focused on ourselves and our wants and we no longer understand what it means to practice humility.