Restoring The Image Of God In Us
Jewelry breaks. Toys break. Electronics break. You and I break. God made us in His image but our sin fractured our likeness to Him and our relationship with Him. But Christmas is for the broken. God loves the broken. He sent Jesus for the broken.
He Will Save His People
We try to ignore it. We try to downplay it. We try to run from it. We try to overcome it. But no matter what we do, it is an exercise in futility, because it doesn’t change reality. This world is undeniably broken.
We Can Know God
People have all kinds of ideas in their heads about God, and these ideas, right or wrong, shape how we view the world and influence how we live in it. When Jesus came to live in this world with us, He made it possible for us to know what God is really like.
Christmas Is About Greatness
God wants you to be great. But your greatness will not be found merely in your personal achievements, resources, influence, popularity, or any other metric in which you strive to be first. Your greatness will come when you strive to put others first. God wants you to be great … as a servant.
From Heaven To Earth, From Earth To Heaven
Believers are followers, and as we follow Jesus wherever He leads to do whatever He wills, let us remember that He didn’t bring us this far to bring us this far. Step by step on the way to our eternal home, let us hold on to the hope of this promise: Jesus is holding on to us until we get there.
Christmas Is A Declaration Of War
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. – Genesis 3:15 ------------------------ Christmas is a declaration of war on everything that separates us from God and...
The Reason For The Season And Everything Else
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. – 1 Peter 3:15 ------------------------ Every belief, action, fact, event, spoken word, attitude, and outcome has...
He Knows What You’re Going Through
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14 ------------------------ When Jesus took on flesh to dwell among us, He didn’t come with an entourage of personal...
What Does Jesus Want For Christmas?
And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. – Matthew 2:11 ------------------------ What does Jesus want for Christmas?...
Receiving The Gift Of God’s Son
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. – John 1:12-13 ------------------------ You can’t think about Christmas...
