Take a look at the Christmas story, and it's anything but nice. But that's the point: it doesn't need to be.

Christmas needs the season of Advent because Advent gives the diagnosis for which Christmas is the cure.

It's becoming harder to believe that one person can make a difference in the world. But what if it isn't about us changing the world, but God changing the world through us?

Where others don't see much in David, God sees a king, and a vessel for the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes stories in the Bible sound impossible. Sometimes it's the point.

We tend to think the world works a certain way. Jesus is God's wisdom--showing us a different way.

Where others don't see much in David, God sees a king, and a vessel for the Holy Spirit.

Where others don't see much in David, God sees a king, and a vessel for the Holy Spirit.

We're future-oriented creatures. Without something to inspire us, to make us excited to be alive, we become imprisoned by fear and anxiety.

The story of the Bible isn't souls judged and sent to an afterlife. It's

creation redeemed and made whole, beginning to end. We join in.