Unto us a Son is given, unto us a Child is born!
For our Bible times this month we went through a little book by Michael Card, The Promise: A Celebration of Christ's Birth. The book accompanies his Christmas CD. Here are some of the main points that we learned.
*Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise.
Christianity is founded on a promise. Faith involves waiting on a promise.
Our hope is based on a promise. God promised He would be "with us", not as an unseen ethereal force, but in the form of a person with a name: Jesus.
*Christmas means finding in a place where you would least expect to find anything you want, everything you could ever want.
"He will be called WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,
MIGHTY GOD, ETERNAL FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE"
All this, and infinitely more, alive in an impoverished Baby in a barn.
*An ancient Latin motto, Vicit agnus noster cum sequamur,
means, "Our Lamb has conquered, Him let us follow."
We discussed the paradox of weakness being strength, defeat is victory,
and poverty is wealth.
"Christmas, the celebration of the first Coming of the Lamb,
looks back to the humble stable and the simple shepherds.
The setting is a dark, fallen world. He has come to expose through
His weakness the impotence of what the world calls power. he has come to show
us that it is we who are upside-down. "
*Christmas is a preparation for the celebration that will be the Second Coming,
of the Lamb triumphant.
My prayer is that the truths of the Incarnation of our Immanuel, God with us, will be hidden in our hearts and drawn upon throughout the coming year.
Christianity is founded on a promise. Faith involves waiting on a promise.
Our hope is based on a promise. God promised He would be "with us", not as an unseen ethereal force, but in the form of a person with a name: Jesus.
*Christmas means finding in a place where you would least expect to find anything you want, everything you could ever want.
"He will be called WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,
MIGHTY GOD, ETERNAL FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE"
All this, and infinitely more, alive in an impoverished Baby in a barn.
*An ancient Latin motto, Vicit agnus noster cum sequamur,
means, "Our Lamb has conquered, Him let us follow."
We discussed the paradox of weakness being strength, defeat is victory,
and poverty is wealth.
"Christmas, the celebration of the first Coming of the Lamb,
looks back to the humble stable and the simple shepherds.
The setting is a dark, fallen world. He has come to expose through
His weakness the impotence of what the world calls power. he has come to show
us that it is we who are upside-down. "
*Christmas is a preparation for the celebration that will be the Second Coming,
of the Lamb triumphant.
My prayer is that the truths of the Incarnation of our Immanuel, God with us, will be hidden in our hearts and drawn upon throughout the coming year.
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