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Gold and frankincense and myrrh

What do you buy the man who has it all? Advertisers pose that question this time of year.  And usually they answer: some kind of razor. But here’s the one occasion where the question is not hyperbole.  Jesus really is the Owner and Inheritor of the universe.  As Colossians 1 puts it: “By [Christ] were […]

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

In science fiction, alien life forms are always showing up from another world.  Most often they come to destroy and dominate.  In Luke chapter 2, there is a very different kind of alien invasion: “8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 […]