The Stream that Leads Us to the Fountain Sometimes during the Christmas season we hear people say, “Happy holidays!” and we really wish they would have said, “Merry Christmas!” We wonder how people could have the audacity to take Christ out of Christmas, so we make sure to (emphatically) say “Merry Christmas” whenever we can. But, of course, there is no Christ in Christmas for many people these days. So we can’t expect people who do not love Jesus to promote his name. As Christians, however, we know that [...]

             “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so; little ones to him belong, they are weak, but he is strong.” Maybe your parents sang this little chorus to you when you were little. Maybe you sing it to your little ones now. Did you know that the song has more than one verse? If you want to know what the other verses say, see hymn 344 in our hymnal! Sometimes when I sing this song to our children, I think to myself, “Does the [...]