A friend’s request for a rent check called my dual loyalties into question. Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity ...

I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...

After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...

Without acknowledging our grief, we won’t experience the deep comfort of releasing our sorrows to the suffering Savior ...

E.M. Welcher is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota. He is the author of Advent: A Thread in the ...

The answer is as clear and serious as the noonday sun: because Jesus is real. The incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ, is our ...

Every year, Christmas enters my life like the final page of a novel, where all the dark years and dashed expectations give ...

The eerie thing was, as I gazed upward at the brilliant spectacle, the immediate darkness in which I stood was just as ...

Advent reminds us that no matter how dark we might sense the world to be, we are known and seen by the God who so wonderfully ...

Call it the “Christmas cloud”—that unwelcome shadow suspended over many in December. For the Christian, it’s hard to admit.

That is Advent’s promise, one Christ’s birth made manifest as “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John ...

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