We can all remember the first time we learned to ride a bike. That terrible thrill when we first realized Dad had let go of the seat and we were on our own. That first crash and the skinned knees. The life of a Christian is a lot like that. We want to experience the freedom we're promised, so we take a risk, a leap of faith--and sometimes we fall. But just like Dad running alongside of us, God is always there, equipping us, encouraging us, and comforting us.
Through the powerful analogy of teaching his son to ride a bike, Mike Howerton lays out five essential life lessons that will help...

Northwest Nativity is a modern retelling of the Advent story, meant to help us to view the birth of Jesus through contemporary eyes. Our vision has been dimmed a bit by the sepia toned poetry build up of the last two thousand years. But when the first century heard of the miraculous nativity, it would have sounded very much to them like the story that you just read, about Maria, Joe, and Jesus. In other words, it was filled with people and places that were very familiar, and yet at the same time amazingly wonderful The juxtaposition of the miraculous and the mundane were never more evident...