Because Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, death need no longer scare us the way that it often does – for the grave can longer hold us and death can no longer end us – “We shall rise, we shall rise!”

"Let not your hearts be troubled? How, in a world like this, can our hearts be anything other than troubled?"

What does it mean to be a Christian?

"Two questions for today: The first is this: Does God want to be known? And the second: do we really want to know God in return?"

And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.