I’ll never forget my worst Christmas/Christmas Eve sermon ever. I wanted to try something “fresh” but outside the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth. So I took my people into the wild world of Revelation ...

If there’s one word that’s core to Christmas, it's "peace." Yet we need to recognize that even the seemingly unarguable exhortation to strive for peace must not be treated as absolute law. There are ...

Lookout Mountain United Methodist Church invites everyone this third Sunday in Advent for fellowship and worship at 11 a.m. this Sunday in the Sanctuary. Pastor Tom (Tucker) will deliver his sermon, ...

It's dark this time of year. Dark, in terms of daylight. Dark, perhaps, in other ways as well. "A time when want is keenly felt, and abundance rejoices," as Dickens says in "A Christmas Carol." Which ...

There’s something about the “Christmas spirit”—kindness, generosity, peace, goodwill—that we long for all year round … indeed, for all eternity. We often talk about the night before Christmas, but ...

Pope Francis holds the baby Jesus statue at the end of the Christmas night mass in the Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December 24, 2013. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION) - ...