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Dolphins can live in the deepest water without danger because they regularly come to the surface and take in the air that sustains them. We,...

The story is told of a poor grass cutter who found a beautiful stone in the jungle. He had often heard of people finding valuable diamonds a...

The fitness of our hearts and thoughts to receive God's spirit is like that of violin strings. If they are properly tuned, in harmony wi...

Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a...

In and through Jesus we come to know God as a powerless God, who becomes dependent on us. But it is precisely in this powerlessness that God...

Jesus is called Emmanuel which means "God-with-us" (see Matthew 1: 22-23). The great paradox of Jesus' life is that he, whose ...

When the wonder has gone out of a man he is dead. When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotio...

Jesus is God-with-us, Emmanuel. The great mystery of God becoming human is God's desire to be loved by us. By becoming a vulnerable chil...

The Magi come asking, "Where is the One born to be the Saviour?" (AP). People all around us are asking that question. Day in and d...

So here we are again, a few billion miles farther along our mysterious path among the immensities. What a comfort it is to know the Man in c...

"Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of n...

I read an unusual Christmas sermon about a group who tied the baby Jesus into a manger. The Christmas pageant was being presented in a publi...

The late columnist Mike Royko writes about a conversation he had with Slats Grobnik, a man who sold Christmas trees. Slats remembered one co...

You yourself are the child you must learn to know, rear, and above all enlighten. To demand that others should provide you with textbook ans...

Instead of genuine forgiveness, our generation has been taught the vague notion of "tolerance." This is, at best, a low-grade paro...

We continue to put ourselves down as less than Christ. Thus, we avoid the full honour as well as the full pain of the Christian life. But th...

Thanks to your "success," you now have something to lose. Because of this - as if suddenly aware of the risks - you ask whether yo...

Being the living Christ today means being filled with the same Spirit that filled Jesus. Jesus and his Father are breathing the same breath,...

Being a believer means being clothed in Christ. Paul says: "Every one of you that has been baptised has been clothed in Christ" (G...

When we think about Jesus as that exceptional, unusual person who lived long ago and whose life and words continue to inspire us, we might a...