Have you ever seen an O Come, O Come, Emmanuel nesting set?

We need God to clear the air. Only when we are inhaling deeply of his Spirit, of his breath that gives us life, will life have a freshness that fills it with meaning, contentment, purpose, and joy. Only then does the smoke clear. So, when everything turn to smoke open up God’s Word, find a Christian friend, come to worship, or close your eyes in prayer and in-so-doing take a deep breath.

1 Peter 1:18 says our ransom (our purchase price) was measured not in “perishable things such as sliver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.”

Jesus is the rock that nothing can knock off course. His trajectory is an orbit around our salvation and he will not be moved from that heavenly pattern until it is accomplished.

Midway through this month sits a day that should not pass unnoticed, not this year. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Yes, each year we commemorate it by giving kids a day off school, by a little extra attention to the history of the civil rights movement in America, and by remembering King as one who once had a dream.