Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from my North Carolina Home to Yours. Today, I am watching my favorite Jane Austen movies and writing a new chapter for “A Touch of Grace.” It will be a quiet day, and for that I am thankful.

I encourage each of you to give God what he most wants for Christmas. Not your life. He has no use for it. God bestowed “life” upon you. Instead, consider giving him what he most desires: your sin.