1. Here, robed in Word and Sacrament, is your King, infant though He be, come out of eternity into time to bring you out of time and into eternity.
  2. Our only claim to fame is that we have been claimed by a God who is consistently drawn to losers!
  3. You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.
  4. Meeting the crown prince is one thing; meeting God in the flesh, as the Light of the Gentiles and the Savior of the world is another.
  5. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
  6. Couldn't Mary and Joseph have used more practical gifts? Why did the magi bring such unusual presents to the Christ Child? And how do these Gentiles fit into this very Jewish part of Matthew's Gospel? Let's ask some Old Testament prophets and poets for the answer.
  7. The church’s song goes on and on, singing and ringing down to us today.
  8. This Christmas season we are thankful that even though we “fallers” are unable to climb up to God, he came down the ladder to us.
  9. While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.
  10. Love turns out to be not simply a thing or action, but a characteristic of God himself.
  11. The shepherds are the most unlikely people to play the role the angels cast them in.
  12. A madman king. State-decreed infanticide. A fleeing holy family. What does all this have to do with Christmas? And how did a day of horror also become a day of hope? Today, December 28, the church remembers The Holy Innocents.