Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

All I Need to Know about Worship I Learned from Christmas CarolsI love Christmas music. Many of the cherished songs of the season include lyrics that describe worship. Here’s my list of favorite Christmas carol worship instructions. I’ve italicized the verbs–those good old action words: Fall on your knees! (“O Holy Night”) Remember, Christ, our […]


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More Christmas Scripture

700 Years Before Christ’s Birth (or Thereabouts)I love the Old Testament verses that foretell the gift of the baby Jesus. They remind me of the miracle of God’s perfect gift to us. 6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;And the government will rest on His shoulders;And […]


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My Beautiful Hands

In the Eye of the Believer Last month I wrote (here) about the prospect of surgery on my arthritic left thumb. As it happens, I was scheduled to have surgery on my thumb last Thursday. An odd thing happened: On the Tuesday night before surgery, I tore my cortisone-thinned skin while removing a lidocaine patch […]


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Good News!

How Jesus Came to EarthMore on the miracle: 18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary hadbeen betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be withchild by the Holy Spirit. 19And Joseph her husband, being a righteousman and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send […]


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Promised!

Christ’s Birth ForetoldAnother of my favorite scriptures, foretelling the mystery, the miracle, that we celebrate at Christmas. Can you feel the excitement building? Let every heart prepare Him room! 2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among allthe people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, Onewhose […]


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