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For you, Jesus, the Israel of God, repeats and completes the life of Moses. For you, this new and better Moses was born. For you, He fled from the sword of Herod. For you, He was called out of Egypt. For you, He was called to the Cross. For you, He suffered the whips, the thorns, and the nails: the bleeding and the dying. For you, He was called back to life. For you, He shatters the shackles of sin and death that once bound you by His grace. You, He carries out of Egypt, acro

The Word became flesh . Nothing and no one can change this glorious truth. While the world hastens from one thing to another, while the generosity of friends and neighbors will dissipate, while store-bought presents will eventually end up in the same trash heap as their wrappings, even so, the Word shall yet remain. Through hardship and heartache, despite grief and sadness, the Word shall yet remain. Indeed, heaven and earth will pass away, and yet the Word, which created the

Unto you is born a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.  Unto you, Beloved: you, who fear, you, who grieve, you, who are guilty of and afflicted by sin. Unto you , He is born. Not because you were ready, not because you made room, not because your hearts were pure or your lives ordered; rather, because you were lost, because you were helpless, and, more than that, because He loves you.  For this “unto you”  does not remain in the fields outside Bethlehem. The angel’s proclamation

In the Christ Child’s humiliating flight, you have the security of salvation. He flees to Egypt so that He might give His life for the...

The coming of Christ, the Saviour, doesn’t mean that our earthly lives will suddenly change, that our troubles, sufferings, griefs, or...

God doesn’t deal with sin, death, or evil as you’d expect. You expect a God, like Santa, rewarding the nice and not the naughty. Yet your...

The Saviour, Christ the Lord, is born, yet He wasn’t born to bring temporal health and healing. Nor was He born to fill coffers or...