It is one of my favorite Christmas hymns. A carol of joy, Hark the Herrald Angels Sing, was not always in the form or sound that we enjoy it today. The youtube version below has a driving bass beat and an additional chorus inserted. It comes from Paul Baloche’s Christmas album and it captures well … More Christmas, Let’s Sing!
I am reading a collection of Christmas Sermons by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it is encouraging to see Bonhoeffer’s evangelistic heart unmediated by biographers and interpreters. The editor and translater is Edwin Robertson. In this sermon, Bonhoeffer’s text is Deuteronomy 32. He works off the promise to Israel to give them a land. But Moses is … More Bonhoeffer’s Christmas Sermon
Remember Zacharias? He who would sire a son in his old age with his past child-bearing-years wife. He who, with his wife, Elizabeth, had prayed for a son (Luke 1:13) but had given up on ever hearing an answer. But the year came when the aged and sonless priest from the division of Abijah, in … More When Old Men’s Dreams Come True
Those who are interested in the gospel and missions know how difficult ministry to Muslims can be. And yet, reports continue to stream in of great movements of people from out of Islam toward Christ from all around the world. The standard media is not interested in the story yet. But one day, perhaps one … More More Muslims Turning to Christ
I have been listening to a lot of Christmas music as I work on the Christmas series of messages. And it has been fun (and powerful for my soul) to discover some new music designed specifically with the passages in Luke that saturate the Christmas season. Enjoy, and please pray for me and other pastors working … More Zechariah’s Joy, and Ours
What should we pray for Christmas? What would change us in such a way that we would be all that Jesus came to save us for? I can’t think of a better prayer than this. (Click on the Link) Be Born in Me “Be Born In Me” (Lyrics by Nicole Nordeman / Sung by Francesca … More Be Born in Me
A Christmas Meditation The Bible opens with the magnificent words, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Majestic. There is nothing but God and God creates all that is seen and unseen. Eventually, He creates “Friday’s Child”–man. Man walks with God in a garden and world designed for him by a loving … More A Promise of Light
That’s one way to think of Christmas. With the incarnation, with the God-man Savior, the plan of the Father to conquer sin and its effects, including death, is unleashed. Christmas is the beginning of the end for death. All those who rightly fear death can run to a Savior who rescues them from death and … More The Beginning of the End of Death
Sunday Musings after Christmas First Sunday after Christmas. The Sunday between the end of one year and the beginning of another. A good time to examine roots and think about how we will follow Christ in the New Year. “Müde bin ich, geh’ zur Ruh” If you have a rich German heritage in either the … More A Meditation on the Lord’s Supper
Tuesday is for Preaching Actually, a “virginal conception” is what is really meant! The background to this powerful miracle is stunning. In 734 B.C. the prophet Isaiah was sent to an unbelieving and wicked King by the name of Ahaz. Two armies were allied against him and he was thinking about making an alliance with … More Seven Reasons Christ Had to be Born of a Virgin
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