1. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep to fend for themselves.
  2. In Israel today, it's still possible to witness the same scene the disciples saw 2000 years ago when the Bedouin shepherds bring their flocks home from various pastures at the end of the day.
  3. This is the sound of freedom. The Eternal One died so that we who are dying might live eternally with him.
  4. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. How’s your ticker?
  7. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  8. I didn’t see Christmas as a gift given to me to enjoy, I saw Christmas as a long list of expectations I needed to hold up to love those around me.
  9. Can you imagine Christmas from creation’s point of view?
  10. Luke shows us that when we try to fit God into our life movie, the plot is all wrong; and not just wrong but trivial.
  11. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.