Tag Archives: Christ
The Miracle of Christmas
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares for this, or exhibits this, or results from this. Just as every natural event is the manifestation at a particular place and moment of Nature’s total character, so every particular Christian miracle manifests at a particular place and moment the character and significance of the Incarnation. There is no question in Christianity of arbitrary interferences just scattered about. It relates not a series of disconnected raids on Nature but the various steps of a strategically coherent invasion—an invasion which intends complete conquest and “occupation.” The fitness, and therefore credibility, of the particular miracles depends on their relation to the Grand Miracle; all discussion of them in isolation from it is futile.
— C. S. Lewis, Miracles
The Staggering Astonishment of Christmas
Merry Christmas to all my Life Is Worship readers!
Who can be astonished at anything when he has once learned the mystery of the manger and the cross?
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @nickroark
Happy Together Again
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @leadershipbookz
The Staggering Nature of Christmas
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
HT: @bruceprice18
I Can’t Wait for Christmas!
Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting, however, is an art that our impatient age has forgotten.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
HT: @danielhill1336
God Became Human!
Let us consider well how highly we have been honored by the fact that Christ, the Son of God, became man. So great is this honor that if one of us were an angel, he might rightly wish he were a man, so that he could say: My flesh and blood is enthroned above all angels.
Feeling Beat up by People Lately? There’s Good News!
Though men may accuse you, judge and condemn you, yet know for your support, that you are acquitted before the throne of God. However you may stand in the eyes of men, as full of nothing but faults, persons made up of nothing but sin, yet are you clear in the eyes of God.
God looks upon weak saints in the Son of His love, and sees them all lovely. They are as the tree of Paradise, ‘fair to his eye, and pleasant to his taste,’ (Gen. 3:6).
Ah, poor souls! You are apt to look upon your spots and blots, and to cry out with the leper not only ‘Unclean, unclean!’ but ‘Undone, undone!’
Well, forever remember this, that your persons stand before God in the righteousness of Christ, upon which account you always appear, before the throne of God, without fault. You are all fair, and there is no spot in you.
Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,” The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/2001), 70.
What We Do When We Preach
The object of all true preaching is the heart: we aim at divorcing the heart from sin, and wedding it to Christ.
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @Spurgeon_
