When we think about Christmas, we often look at it from our own perspective.  This is what I want for Christmas.  This is what I want Christmas to look like.  This is who I want to be with for Christmas.  This is what I want to do on Christmas. Sometimes we think of Christmas from the perspective...

A few Sundays ago, I heard an encouraging, but different, testimony in church. Mark has been suffering from a kidney disease for approximately 30 years.  And as the disease has progressed, he has had to have a kidney transplant.  But even so, his condition continued to deteriorate.  It had now gotten...