Today’s email from Townhall.com has a great message:

We Need to Hear the Message of Christmas
—Albert Mohler

Christmas comes as many Americans seem anxious and all-too-aware of challenges that face us all. Economic uncertainty, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a constant barrage of news create a strange context for Christmas.

Then again, maybe this is very much like the first Christmas. When Jesus came, the world hardly noticed. It was filled with anxiety and very few, it seemed, were thinking about what God was then doing as Christ was born in Bethlehem’s manger.

Christmas is a gift. This season of celebration interrupts our lives and reminds us that our anxieties and uncertainties do not have the last word. Instead, “the hopes and fears of all the years” are put in their place by the coming of the Christ.

We need to hear the message of the angels again–unto you is born a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.