Text: Psalm 27 It is hard to walk in the dark. Despite my age and knowing better, I still often try it some nights. I wake up early,...

Texts: Psalm 126:1; Matthew 2:18-23 I lived a somewhat schizophrenic childhood. The lessons I learned in school often did not jive with...

Text: Matthew 2:1-3, 7-11 Fred Buechner once wrote: “The gifts that the . . . Magi, brought to the manger in Bethlehem cost them plenty...

Luke 2:1-20 In her book, Breathing Space, Lutheran pastor, Heidi Neumark tells a story that will probably sound remarkably familiar to...

Luke 2:1-20 It was Christmas Eve evening in 1980. Most memories of that first Christmas season away from Virginia are now largely a blur....

Matthew 1:18-25 I am a big fan of Joseph. Not so much the Joseph with the coat of many colors from Genesis, but the Joseph we meet in the...

Text: Matthew 11:2-6 I have moved far too often in my life. Though each move was different, they all shared something in common. Moving...

Matthew 3:1-12 In the Charles household, Uncle Willy was the family enigma. No one knew him very well because he kept to himself and he...