Good News for All Peopleby: Dr. Mike Ruffin (guest preacher) God sent Jesus to Israel. It would have been easy for the early Jewish Christians to conclude from that fact that God had sent Jesus only to Israel. After all, Jesus had pretty much confined his ministry to...

The irony is, the one to whom God first tried to give the Immanuel gift didn’t want it! It was a gift meant for Ahaz, the king of Judah -- albeit a craven and corrupt king -- but God sent him the prophet Isaiah at a time when this king happened to be worried. Ahaz had...

Most of you know that in the great movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey’s Uncle Billy, his erratic, absent-minded, often tipsy assistant, misplaces $8,000 in the lap of their family nemesis, Henry Potter, as cruel, mean, avaricious and hard-hearted a villain as...

On an ordinary night, amidst an ordinary empire-wide tax census ordered by Caesar Augustus, outside of an insignificant Palestinian hamlet, ordinary young men tending sheep were startled by a heavenly messenger announcing to them that the long-anticipated Messiah had...

Years ago, cruising the periodicals list of the Davidson College library I ran across something called the Illustrated London News. The emphasis of this particular issue was a retrospective on the D-Day invasion, and one particular article caught my eye, a column on...