Monthly Archives: December 2006

How often does our behavior become so ingrained that we do not even realize we are doing it or why we are doing it if we do realize it? This was the nature of the behavior of the people of Jerusalem that God condemned. They believed they were worshiping God, but what they were really doing was going through the motions of what someone else told them they should do, but the faith had long since passed. Continue reading →

There are certain human behaviors that have always been a part of human nature. Chief among those behaviors is pride, and pride is what the people of Ephraim showed most of all in their rebellion against God and Jerusalem. In their pride, these people established their own faith, one separate from the faith in the One, True God. In doing so, they cut themselves off from their God. Continue reading →

God’s judgment is not purposeless. Instead, like the refining of a precious metal, God’s judgment purges away the impurities that mar faith and lead the righteous astray. Once that judgment has passed, what remains is God’s pure and precious gifts of grace, faith, hope, and love, the very things that preserve us and bring us to Heaven. Continue reading →

Christmas Eve is a time for celebration and song. On this night, we celebrate Christ our Lord and Savior come into the world as one of us, God become man in the form of a child born of a virgin in a stable. In this reality all Christians rejoice. Continue reading →