We like to think of God in terms of love. We love God. He’s our Father, Christ is our Savior, the Spirit is our Comforter. What’s to fear? Plenty, as it turns out. And fearing God leads to loving Him, knowing His truth, living in His wisdom – indeed, fullness of life as God intends.

Jesus is born and it seems like everyone already knows who He is. Some folks even know some disturbing details. Mary bears the burden of all this.

Light is a powerful image for representing Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. Jesus identified Himself as the Light of the world. In His Kingdom, all who believe in Him walk in the light as He is in the light. But what does this mean?

The Reformation was not just about right doctrine. As these excerpts from Martin Luther and John Calvin demonstrate, the reformers were eager to rediscover the true nature of Christian life and of the Church as the community of God's people.

Art is perhaps the most routinely neglected resource for Christian life and witness. Yet human beings were made for art, and we are all involved in the arts in many ways.

Zechariah and Mary both get good news, but Zechariah doubts Gabriel’s word. Zechariah gets a lesson in how to talk to angels.

God, spiritual realities, heaven – such ideas our increasingly secular generation refuses to acknowledge. But the Christian knows these are real, and that believers have a calling from God which comes to them from that spiritual realm and is meant to bear witness to God in the here and now.