Vol 71 Issue 06

Christmas, you see, is about family. Christmas is mainly about family. Christmas is all about family. This is the truth of Christmas only inasmuch as Christmas is the birth of the baby Jesus from the virgin. The child had no earthly father. As the angel announced to His mother, in accounting for her conception, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee” (Luke 1:35). The virgin conception establishes that Christmas is about family, because conception by a virgin, without a male, is the sign and means of the incarnation. God the Son...

Rev. Hanko is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.  Malachi 3:16 Jehovah’s book of remembrance is the record of the lives of those who “fear the Lord,” since they are most precious in His sight. From His throne in heaven He listens to them when they are talking one with the other, pouring out their souls in times of...