Yes: Christmas was yesterday. But I don’t publish on Sundays. And Friday was a podcast day, so that wasn’t an appropriate day for greetings either. So here you have it. One day late:

Merry Christmas from Casting Across.

I do hope that your holiday was filled with all of the things that you desired and more. Family, food, and maybe a little bit of fishing. Most of all, I do hope that you had an opportunity to thoughtfully reflect on why you had a holiday to begin with. Here in an excerpt from my Christmas sermon:

I can say with great joy and with great confidence that the hopeful, inviting message of Christmas is for you because the first angel to appear that night said that He was bringing “good news of great joy which will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10).

The message of the peace through Christ was for shepherds and kings. It was for Jews and Gentiles. It was for those in 1st century Bethlehem and it will be for all time. It is for the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the lovely and the unlovely: there is no chronological, genealogical, or geographical limits to the good news of Jesus Christ. It is for all the people.

And you and me: we are part of all the people.

Once more, Merry Christmas to you and yours from Casting Across.