What Child is This? (Part 2)
This is hope. This is light. This is a second chance. This is unexpected news of gladness. This is salvation from our sins and from what awaits us in the end. This is humanity’s deliverer!
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The question is not that we don’t know it is that in knowing who this child is that we are introduced to more mystery than we knew so that we are left both with a beggared imagination and with an impulse to fall on our knees in worship.
READ MOREDon’t Be Afraid of Humility
Christmas, as we know, is the story of divine condescension. The one and only, the altogether glorious God, robed Himself in human flesh and became a man. In Philippians 2:8,…
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A Vision For Christmas
Hope. It is a very powerful thing to have. People without hope eventually lose the will to live, lose a sense of well-being, become aimless, and easily fall prey to very destructive patterns of living.
All Hail King Jesus
A Vision For Christmas
After Jesus was born, Matthew tells that Magi travelled from the East and arrived in Jerusalem with a question.
Why We Need a Savior
A Vision For Christmas
John 3:16 is an important Christmas verse. God so loved the world that he gave his only son. And that is the Christmas message we have all loved, and it is wonderfully true.
Isaiah’s Light in a Dark World
A Vision For Christmas
We are looking at Isaiah’s Christmas and we have noticed that Isaiah’s days were dark days.
Christmas and the Pathway to Humility
One of the wonderful Christmas passages comes from Philippians 2:6–8. “…who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,…
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A Vision For Christmas
Jesus once said, recorded in Matthew 7:13–14: “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”
Isaiah’s Condemnation of a Sinful Nation
A Vision For Christmas
I know it, the title is offensive. Condemnation of a sinful nation. Thankfully in our day, we are preaching a religion that is free of condemnation.
