Is your whole life oriented around following your rabbi and savior? To be with Him. To become like Him. To do as He did?

To give grace always costs the giver something.

We are all waiting for something. For the end of pain, for a spouse, for a child… And so we look to the Christmas story and ask: What does the story of Christmas have to say to weary waiters?

Temptation towards sin is only one battle ground for Satan in the life of a Christian. The other place of temptation is after you have fallen.

Perhaps one of the reasons some of us struggle so deeply to grasp the grace of God is because we are not comfortable receiving.