It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
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Tag Archives: Christmas
A Christmas Wish
I wish there were ten or a dozen Christmas Days in the year — for there is work enough in the world and a little more rest would not hurt laboring people. Christmas Day is really a gift to us.
Magnificat (with Wexford Carol)
Birthday of a King
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
A very familiar Christmas carol to a new arrangement
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
Carried by Hands He Formed
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
When the Fulness of Time Came
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Galatians 4.4-5
The Christmas Psalms
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Jesus Christ Was Conceived by the Holy Spirit, and Born of the Virgin Mary
[Commenting on Mt. 1:18-25]
These verses begin by telling us two great truths. They tell us how the Lord Jesus Christ took our nature upon Him, and became man. They tell us also that His birth was miraculous. His mother Mary was a virgin.
These are very mysterious subjects. They are depths, which we have no line to fathom. They are truths, which we have not mind enough to comprehend. Let us not attempt to explain things which are above our feeble reason. Let us be content to believe with reverence, and not speculate about matters which we cannot understand. Enough for us to know, that with Him who made the world nothing is impossible. Let us rest in the words of the Apostles’ Creed:
“Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary.”
J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Matthew
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