Christmas arrives every year wrapped in lights, music, gifts, and celebration, but for many hearts, it also comes with anxiety, exhaustion, fear, and discouragement. While the world tells us Christmas should feel joyful, Scripture reminds us that the first Christmas entered a world already filled with darkness. The prophet Isaiah wrote his words nearly 700 years before Christ, during a time of national instability, political fear, spiritual decline, and moral corruption. Judah was living...

" Where is mercy in the world? Is there even mercy still?," I overheard this question at a local coffee shop recently while studying for...