Warning! Let me link you to two short recent posts that are absolutely radical in their content for this part of the country at Christmas time.
Also, I just sampled writings by Lee Strobel, yesterday. One of the sisters in our church family placed a copy of The Case For Christmas (Zondervan, 2005) last week on my office desk. It is just a condensed version (91 pages) of The Case for Christ.
I read the whole thing yesterday, and I found the seeking trail of Strobel in his journalistic interviews to be fascinating.
The booklet is broken up as follows:
Introduction: Who Was in the Manger on That First Christmas Morning?
The Eyewitness Evidence: Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?
The Scientific Evidence: Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus’ Biographies?
The Profile Evidence: Did Jesus Fulfill the Attributes of God?
The Fingerprint Evidence: Did Jesus—and Jesus Alone—Match the Identity of the Messiah?
Conclusion: The Verdict of History
Within this booklet, you will read of Lee’s interviews with Craig Blomberg, John McRay, D. A. Carson, and Louis S. Lapides (Pastor Louis just resigned this year from the Beth Ariel Fellowship after many extended years of ministry. I do confess that Jesus is the unique, triumphant Lion of God. Jesus is Deity; other ariel in scripture are not.)
Chapters 1 (Blomberg) and 3 (Carson) were the most interesting to me as I head into this Christmas week.
During these last days in 2007, I hunger to know more of Christ.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 