Each week, Everyday Servant links to 4 really great posts from Christian blogs…
Some are from well-known writers and blogs…
Others are from blogs you might have missed…
In today’s 4-to-Read…
Posts that ask what we can learn from the Christmas that has just passed…
- Christmas doesn’t make sense!
- How dare we say “Merry Christmas!” while millions suffer?
- Finding the peace of Christmas in the midst of our broken lives
- Lessons of Christ’s birth…
Links to posts from Jon Acuff, Ann Voskamp, David Rupert and Tim Challies…
1. What sense does Christmas make?
Christmas, says Jon Acuff, simply does not make sense.
It doesn’t line up with everything we’ve learned about the world….
Christmas celebrates a radical kind of love, a love that breaks the world’s rules…
2. Merry Christmas?
The coming of the Prince of Peace to a world where tens of thousands of people died in wars last year?
Where poverty and hunger and war affect millions-no billions of people?
The arrival of a savior in the middle of a world crying out in pain and anger and hunger?
How can it possible make sense to say, “Merry Christmas!” in the midst of our world of troubles?
Read Ann Voskamp, as she calls gives hope for Christmas Day… and all the days that follow…
3. Christmas lessons from a two-year-old
Read Rupert looked at his own life and asked how he could possibly let and accept the grace f Christmas.
Read what he learned from a two year old girl and a 150 year old poem…
4.“Teaching moment”
Such a popular phrase in the 21st century…
What did God want to teach us through the place and time and circumstances of Jesus’ birth?
How can those lessons change our lives and our world?
Read Tim Challies thoughts from his blog, Challies.com
