Christmas is all about ‘good news to the poor’ (Is 61:1). Not only was Jesus born in a stable, not a palace, but the angels appeared to shepherds, the lowest of the low in terms of jobs in those days. (Luke 2:8-20) We may question why God worked in this way, but the...

The term ‘thinking outside the box’ is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking, and certainly, it’s interesting to discover how other people think. We tend to think...

Mary spent much of her pregnancy with her cousin, Elizabeth, who was also pregnant. (Luke 1:5-25, 39) God’s miraculous intervention in enabling Elizabeth and Zechariah to conceive is an echo of many other miraculous births in the Bible (e.g. Gen 21, 1 Sam 1) and a...