1. The good news of the Gospel is Jesus has come, and Jesus will come again.
  2. It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
  3. When we pray to Jesus, we pray to the King's right hand. We know one who has the Father's ear, respect and trust. And the one who intercedes for us is still one of us, with nail-pierced hands.
  4. Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
  5. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  6. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.
  7. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  8. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  9. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  10. Take courage, you who were lost: Jesus comes to seek and save that which is lost. Ye sick, return to health: Christ comes to heal the contrite of heart with the balm of his mercy. Rejoice, all you who desire great things: the Son of God comes down to you that he may make you the co-heirs of his kingdom.
  11. Rejoice with Mary as she would rejoice with you. Be blessed, like her, with humility from God, so that you may serve joyfully and willingly wherever and in whatever role God has placed you.
  12. In whatever direction the bias of men might be, from thence he might recall them, and teach them of his own true Father, as he himself says: I came to save and to find that which was lost.