Jesus Christ (1230)
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  1. The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
  2. Perhaps this past year has prompted the recognition that God is not the tame projection of our highest hopes and dreams. Instead, he is the one who uses even his foes to make a point.
  3. . . . but the joke's on Herod. Joseph takes Mary and baby Jesus to refuge in Egypt, and all that happens in Matthew 2 is done in order to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament.
  4. The setting for Luke 2 is the first century analog to my backyard. The stage is dressed with rust and decay, guilt and shame, sin and death.
  5. To the extent that God is exclusive by offering salvation only through Christ we can say he is more gracious than other systems because he takes on our guilt upon himself while gifting us his righteousness.
  6. Christmas-time is the bold proclamation that God was born to save sinners.
  7. While you are comparing your presents and life to others, pour a Sidecar, turn off the Taylor Swift, and man up.
  8. This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
  9. King Herod's rule is threatened when the Magi come to worship the one born King of the Jews. But did they spill the beans?
  10. We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.
  11. The incarnate Son of God makes ordinary events extraordinary by making them events that factor into our salvation.
  12. This Jesus, Savior of sinners, does not do his work from afar. He comes to dwell with us, humbling himself, taking on flesh, that we might be redeemed.
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