Holiday

As Christmas quickly approaches, many of us harbor hopes for a better, brighter holiday than ever filled with joy, but how do we hold on to that hope through the holidays and beyond? 

The holidays seem to herald their approach these days through the Hallmark channel.

Known as the ‘hope of the prophets,’ this first marker of Advent is a reminder that God does not ignore our world’s darkness and that we strain toward a future hope not yet realized.

Most people in the U.S. are at least vaguely acquainted with the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, if only from popular culture references or the cult classic movie Tombstone.

Sometimes the worst in our families and ourselves comes out during the holidays, so how do we make this season the beautiful time it’s supposed to be?

Thanks to recent events, our Easter looks quite different for many people, but is that necessarily a bad thing?

With much of the world in quarantine thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, this Easter has the potential to look quite different for many of us.

This holiday, which is uncomfortable and frequently half ignored, is one of the most important for believers, so what do we miss by skipping over it to Easter?

Autumn has a certain smell.

Everyone looks forward to Easter morning, but how should we spend our time waiting for the Sunday celebrations?

A pastor stood up before his church and stated, “Christ has come to us through Adolph Hitler.”

The year was 1933.

When we really get our hopes up for God to do something, we occasionally set ourselves up to be badly disillusioned, so how can we avoid this?

The story of this Sunday is very familiar.

A strange little holiday is coming up, and if you haven’t celebrated it before, should you and how would you?

Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth. Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

This particular holiday is commonly assumed to be a Catholic one, but it has far older roots in the earliest beginnings of the church and has clear modern day relevance for God’s people.

A group of avowed agnostics decided to observe Lent, “atheist Lent” as they put it.

Recovering from the Yuletide season can feel like a rather dark and lonely road, especially now that all the bright lights and cheery music are gone.