Dear Friends, In less than two weeks we will celebrate the birth of the One who brought us salvation. As I’ve pondered that over the past few days, I’ve had one question that keeps rattling around in my mind: “How should we do that?” How should we respond to the fact that Jesus - our Savior - was born?” Now, I know that for some of you more theologically-minded folks, this is a really big question. So you probably can’t figure out why I would choose to bring it up in a brief,

Dear Friends, Yesterday I had a doctor’s appointment, and as is usually the case at a doctor’s office, I spent some time in the waiting area. I was pleased to see that they had plenty of magazines sitting around – unfortunately most of them were at least ten years old. After sorting through the stack closest to me, I came across an old National Geographic, and started leafing through the different articles. I stopped on one titled, “The Amazing African Impala”. To be honest,