Nativity On a hill, In cold Winter, When fallen leaves lay thick and still, And nothing of green remains, I hear a baby crying in the wind. What secret this dark night hides! In all our endings something begins. Stephen M Crotts, December, 2017
All We Know About Friendship We Learned from Christ at Christmas
All We Know About Friendship We Learned from Christ at Christmas Show up. Don’t sit back and demand people come to you. Go to them. Be gracious. Be truthful. Eat together. Take a walk. Give gifts. Nurture. Ask hard questions. Listen. Laugh together. Cry. It’s okay to be sad or angry. Worship together. Share a […]
At Peace in a Fearful World
At Peace in a Fearful World Part one of Two Parts Stephen Crotts The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom should I be afraid? – Psalm 27:1 Two hoboes walk up to the gate of a farmhouse. A dog […]
Context
Last summer I spent a month at Wittenberg University in Germany studying with and teaching at night twenty-six divinity school students on the biblical view of courtship, singleness, loneliness, sex, lust, marriage, and Jesus Christ. Wittenberg is the city of the Reformation and Martin Luther. Some 60,000 people live there now. At night our group […]
Destiny
Destiny… The flow of people and politics… The river cultures, the Code of Hammurabi, Abraham, Pharaoh, Moses, the Decalogue, Joshua, Deborah, Saul, David and Solomon, the Assyrian Conquest, Jeremiah, Cyrus, Nehemiah, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Herod, Christ, Paul, Origen, Polycarp, Alaric the Hun, Augustine, Francis, Mohammed, Charles Martel, Huss, Luther, Newton, Nietzsche, Beethoven, Columbus, Wagner, […]
All It Takes to Be Happy!
Do you have a sense of contentment? Without a house, a change of clothes, health, a car freedom, spouse, well-cooked food, and a salary, the apostle Paul could say, “Not that I complain of want: for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Philippians 4:11). Paul wrote that while in jail! […]
