A Christmas Hymn - Richard Wilbur

December 16, 2019 by Joel Burns in Guest Post, Poetry for Dudes, Christmas

Take a minute and enjoy a Christmas poem from a former U.S. poet laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Big Joy

December 10, 2019 by Joel Burns in Christmas, devotions

Christmas is BIG, brothers and sisters. The joy it creates is big. Unfathomably big. Indescribably big. Incalculably big.

An Ideal Christmas

December 20, 2017 by Joel Burns in meditations, Christmas

Part of the wondrous beauty of Christ is found in knowing that long after the tree has come down, the lights have turned off, and the songs have stopped playing, He will still be who He is. And He will still have done what He came here to do.

And if that’s not worth rejoicing over, I’m not sure anything is.

Worship in the Genealogies (A Christmas Meditation)

December 08, 2017 by Joel Burns in meditations, Christmas

In the spirit of the Christmas season and the celebration of the Incarnation, I would love to offer just a few observations on those most beloved and highly regarded parts of the Bible…

…the GENEALOIGES. (Insert preferred indication of sarcasm here.)

But, in all seriousness, they’re in there for a reason and once we see even a few of the reasons why, we might come to understand and appreciate and celebrate them just as meaningfully as we do the other parts of the Scriptures.