At Christmas, God's incarnate love encounters the world and transforms it. To get a better understanding of how love transforms the world, we look at how it transforms individuals, and communities and how the cosmos itself is changed by God's love.

Joy comes from the realization of our hope. Jesus is a cause of great joy because he is the fulfillment of God's promises. When the angel speaks to the shepherds on the first Christmas, he uses three labels for Jesus—Saviour, Messiah, and Lord—that each speaks to the different ways in which Jesus' coming is good…

In our second week of Advent, we look at the theme of peace in the story of Jesus calming the storm. Jesus is God's presence with us. That should fill us with peace, but we need to remember two important lessons: 1) While God is present with us, we need to invite him to act…

Hope is bittersweet. We can only experience it when things are not as we wish they were, and yet hope is the refusal to accept that as things are they must continue to be. Godly hope sees God's faithfulness in the past as a downpayment on his future faithfulness and it trusts that the difficulties…