As I write this newsletter, I am sitting by our Christmas tree. There are no presents underneath it yet, but I know my family and I will be thoughtfully buying one another gifts and exchanging gifts with our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. As I look across the living room into the entrance hallway, on a little table, there is a manger scene carved and constructed out of olive wood from Bethlehem. Long ago, in 1993, I traveled to the Holy Land with Adrian and Joyce Rogers for a 10- day tour and I bought this manger scene in a little shop there. We get it out every year as we spend the month of December remembering the birth of Jesus, Who is God, made visible in the flesh. If you want to know “what God is like” read about Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It’s all right there in Jesus.