Why the Manger?

Why would the Creator of the universe lower himself to the lowest human status?  If God planned the entrance of his own Son into the human realm, couldn’t he have done better than an animal feeding trough for a makeshift crib?!  Why would the Babe enter as a displaced person with nowhere to sleep?  Wasn’t…

Room

Did you ever stop to think how our culture influences how we celebrate Christmas?  And not just the culture at large, but our own subcultures- how our family, church, and friends celebrate or don’t celebrate the holiday.  In our nine Christmases in a third-world Asian country, not once did we celebrate as we would have…