On Dec. 25, Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The weeks leading up to Christmas Day are often a flurry of activity, including everything from gift buying to preparing ...

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving." ...

Dear Lord, don't let us miss You this Christmas season. Help us to simplify our activities and traditions so we can focus our celebration on Your birth. Thank You for being the Prince of Peace, and I ...

I spent a week during last Christmas in the oncology ward of a sprawling university hospital in the Midwest. The staff did their best to make the institution festive. There were decorated trees and ...

Kentucky Baptists join with other Southern Baptists in observing the Week of Prayer for International Missions (Nov. 30-Dec.

Rather than a typical editorial, let us shift from the anger and struggle in our world to a focus on the only One who can calm the storm and give real Christmas cheer. Would you join me in prayer?

“A new year is at hand. We cannot tell what it will bring.” So cautioned King George VI during his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire. That new year brought World War II. Attempting to ...

In the Christmas season many people think of the famous Christmas truce that in 1914 briefly interrupted Western Europe’s slide into industrial-scale slaughter. However, every day that followed right ...

Handmade paper hearts fill the tree of Jeanine Arendt, each one representing a local family hoping for a little extra help ...