“Jesus is God” doesn’t do Christianity or the meaning of Christmas justice. But if God is like Jesus, that’s good news for us all.

“Jesus is God” doesn’t do Christianity or the meaning of Christmas justice. But if God is like Jesus, that’s good news for us all.

the truth is, the tremendous good news is, that ours is a God of both the darkness and the light; despair and joy.  We celebrate a God who willingly enters the darkness in order to bring the light.

the truth is, the tremendous good news is, that ours is a God of both the darkness and the light; despair and joy.  We celebrate a God who willingly enters the darkness in order to bring the light.

Mary speaks as if God has already accomplished everything. But she’s right: God has already won. We might as well give up and join in.

When Christ is present our deepest inward longings are met.

When we hear this story we tend to focus on the Virgin Birth. But there may be a greater miracle here: the fact that Mary says "yes."

Revelation 12 suggests that there's more going on under the surface of the Christmas story, and more going on in our own lives, than what we can see and touch.

The idea of a monarch sounds pretty outdated, medieval, oppressive, even. But followers of Jesus call him Lord and King because he's completely unlike any other king.

Our culture's imagination is filled with apocalyptic images of doom and destruction. Apocalyptic literature, however, is intended to stoke hope in the emergence of a new thing.