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‘Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming’: A Hymnwriter Shares His Favorite Christmas Hymn

This hymn beautifully evokes the mystery of the Incarnation that we celebrate each Christmas.

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We shall not want: On Psalm 23

The words of the familiar psalm are more than poetry. They are a confession of faith: With Christ as our Shepherd, we want for nothing.

Love keeps no record of rights

We do a nice thing and immediately tuck it away in our mental archives for later. “Wow,” we say to ourselves, “would you look at that!” And then we do. Often.

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Where moth and rust decay

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”

When faith matters most

When the unimaginable happens, faith in Jesus is the only thing that will help us through.

Embracing the church generation gap

Instead of just bridging the church generation gap, what if we embraced it? From both sides?

There’s no theology like snow theology

Snow falls, and the ugliness of an unsightly landscape disappears. Dirt, decay, dilapidation — all are erased by two or three inches of newly fallen snow.

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