So much of human heartache stems from miscommunication, misunderstanding, and misplaced intention. In one Peanuts comic strip, Lucy exclaims to her brother Linus, “You HAVE to give me a Christmas present! It says so in the Bible!” In my job as a pastor, I hear a lot of things. Sinners we are all—mistake-prone and often too easily swayed, not so much by conventional wisdom, but by popular opinion. What does the Bible say about giving Christmas presents? We actually have a great, unchanging reference manual from which the truth would rise up and bubble out if we’d open it. The Bible ...