God is here to make broken things new -- the message of Paul to Titus is that no matter how broken of a people or culture God is in the business of making new things out of broken things, and in this passage in chapter 3 Paul stops to remind us that the gospel (the undeserved kindness and mercy of God) is what gives us the power to be made new!

Christmas brings to mind many things, but at its heart is a person. Before bells and snow and hot cocoa was God incarnate, laid upon a manger.Let's go back and experience that moment again together -- through poetry -- when God broke through...