Sunday Afternoon Musings Five responses to “news of a great joy.” Summary to today’s message. We should obey. (Lk. 2:15-16) –the shepherds obeyed and went to find the Savior. Wise men still seek the Savior. We should make the news known. (Lk. 2:17-18) –the shepherds made the news known to the whole region. The early … More Five Responses to “News of a Great Joy”
Friday is for Heart Songs Marketers and mass media, greeting cards and department stores tell us an almost endless number of things about Christmas. Christmas is about giving. Christmas is family. Christmas is togetherness. Christmas is peace and joy. Christmas is about children and toys and etc., etc. Don’t buy it. None of those things … More Beyond Narnia: Always Christmas, Never Winter (Updated from 2011)
Saturday Musings We read our Bible’s but we miss the bigger, larger picture when we miss the larger and better narrative. The Bible, from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 is all about JESUS. Tim Keller helps us to see that in this short video from 2007. Come and worship and adore Him who gave his … More The Bible is Not about You
Monday Discussion The angel comes not to ambassadors, or kings, or presidents, or media moguls, or celebrities, not to intellectuals, or priests, or professors but to shepherds, by many accounts, members of one of the lowest rungs of society in the ancient world. Shepherds. Think about the scene. It’s dark. They are tired. They are … More Terrifying Glory and Surprising Significance
Sunday Musings “And Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” —Luke 2:19 Questions: Is there a simpler and more effective way to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ than treasuring the word of God and pondering it everyday? Wouldn’t today be a good time to start?
Monday Remember Him who came and is coming for you.
The post is a few years old and was originally a post Christmas offering. But maybe this year, at this time, it will help you today. We approach the first week after Christmas and the New Year—a good time to look back again through the eyes of children. Priceless video from a church in New … More It’s Always Christmas: We Live in the Glow of the Incarnation
Christmas Day Have a great celebration of the birth of Christ today. And if you get a chance, find a quiet place to watch the video. It might help bring some of the wonder of what should fill our souls about the coming of Christ. Merry, blessed, joy-filled Christmas to you all. http://youtu.be/byId_ddA0LQ
Weekend Musings “Your soul will shrink to the level of its concerns.” —John Piper Make sure this Christmas that you remain ultimately concerned about the right things. He is called “Immanuel” because He is “God with us.” He was named Jesus, “because He would save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:18-25) Who He … More Being Concerned about the Right Things at Christmas
Monday is for Discussion “The presence of a sinless man among universally sinful men would be as much a miracle in the moral realm as would a virgin birth in the physical realm.” —J.Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, (Moody Press, 1952), 93. “The value of the atonement is intelligible only upon the assumption that the two … More The Virgin Birth of Christ is Not an Optional Belief
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