Tag Archives: Christmas
The Poverty of the Manger
The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross; that is why it is invincible, irrefutable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) in a letter to suffering friends in Christmas, 1942 as WWII raged
The Christmas Psalms
Sing We Now of Christmas
One Small Child
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
What Child Is This?
Heaven’s Majesty and Man’s Misery
O think, that he who was master of all heaven’s majesty came down to be the victim of all man’s misery!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: Challies.com
The Cross at the Center of Christ’s Mission
From Jesus’ youth, indeed even from his birth, the cross cast its shadow ahead of him. His death was central to his mission.
HT: @preachingtoday
Christ Became a Man
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1952), 154.