The third advent candle, the joy candle, is meant to celebrate the joy we feel at the coming of Jesus Christ into the world.

Love is the foundational theme woven throughout Scriptures. In the Bible we are told that we can love because God first loved us! From the Old Testament to the New Testament, God's Word is filled with ...

Scripture often unpacks our union with Christ using illustrations of more familiar things. Sometimes being told what something is like is a good way to begin understanding what that something is.

Don't you love the pictures ... from John invite us into the paradoxical mystery of God and our world. In John 3:16, we hear, "God so loved the world." And in John 18:36, Jesus says that his ...