There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.