Dr. Lisa Hill

Every December, lights return to our neighborhoods and the world hums with a familiar ache. We call it Christmas, but the depth of this season reaches far beyond nostalgia or ritual. Christmas is the moment in history when heaven pierced the veil of human suffering, when God stepped inside the trauma of humanity with skin on, when the world’s grief met its Healer in a manger. For those who carry wounds into the holidays, Christmas can be both beautiful and unbearably tender—and my own story...

4.1 — Sanctification Changes Celebration How the Spirit progressively reorders desires, traditions, and worldview.   One of the most overlooked realities of spiritual growth is that sanctification eventually touches everything —not just belief, not just behavior, but the very rhythms, celebrations, and emotional structures of our lives. When the Holy Spirit begins to deepen His work in a believer, He does not merely refine the obviously sinful or strengthen the overtly spiritual; He reorders...

Consecration is not God taking you out of the season.  It is God taking you deeper into Christ during the season.