From our home to yours, Merry Christmas! May our Father above bring hope, joy, peace, and love to your home as you celebrate the arrival of our Lord and Saviour.

Faith is a fascinating journey. I thought I understood the Lord and the Bible’s teachings when I was a young adult. I then thought I understood it when I was a young father. And then when I was baptized.

In hindsight, I understood very little.

Each Christmas and Easter season that goes by, I seem to learn a new lesson (or at least better understand a core concept of the arc). This year’s lesson: the absolutely unfailing love it takes for the Creator of the universe to humble Himself, enter into our world as a human baby, grow and live a perfect life, and die the most humiliating death. He did this willingly. He did this to correct our chosen path, to restore us to a state of holiness acceptable in heaven above. If heaven is as we expect it is — no sickness, no death; only peace — then it would take an endless love to descend into our failed world and willingly walk this path.

He entered our world not on a golden chariot descended from the clouds, but rather as a vulnerable baby. His first bassinet: a feeding trough for animals. His arrival location: a stable, because the rest of Bethlehem did not have room for the arrival of the Lord. The Creator of the universe — the only being with no beginning and no end — decided to enter into His own creation in the most humble manner possible.

There is no human being alive capable of fabricating a story like this. Specifically, one that satisfies up to 400 different prophecies told by numerous unconnected individuals hundreds and thousands of years earlier.

This is our God! What a wondrous and mighty Father He is.

As we look back at an incredible 2025, we pray for a year of health and prosperity for our home, for our friends’ homes, for our country’s homes, and for homes abroad. May the Lord bless you and keep you as we embark on another year full of success, challenges, lessons, and growth.

Merry Christmas, from our home to yours.