(continued…) When I was a child, it never would have occurred to me to be afraid of God. After all, every week at Sunday School in the old church basement we sang “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” But the more I have seen of the world and […]
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Above left: Clarence Oddbody, George Bailey’s guardian angel ————————– In Luke 1:26-38 an angel of the Lord appeared to Mary to tell her that she, a virgin, would be giving birth to Jesus, the Son of God, whose ‘kingdom will never end.’ In verse thirty, the angel says to Mary,
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Pictured above: A slug ******************************* By C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity The Second Person in God, the Son, became human Himself: he was born into the world as an actual man– a real man of a particular height, with hair of a particular color, speaking a particular language, weighing so many pounds.
3102) What Happened on Christmas? Read More »
In three previous meditations I have expressed my enthusiasm for and appreciation of The John 10:10 Project ( https://thejohn1010project.com/ ). I hope you have taken the time to view some of their 200 wonderful videos. They specializing in portraying the wonders of God’s amazing creation, but they explore other subjects as well. All
3101) Visualizing Christmas Read More »
Do you know what Santa Claus did before he moved to the North Pole, hired all those elves, and started making toys to deliver to all the little children of the world on Christmas Eve? He was a minister. That’s true! Here’s the story. Once upon a time, around 280 A.D., on
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Don’t miss the videos at the end– especially the first one! It was December 2019 and Lisa Clow was not at all in the Christmas spirit. It had been a difficult year and a half, and she was struggling. Finances had been a problem, she suffered a miscarriage, and some troubled relationships left
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One of the best-loved Christmas carols is Joy to the World. The song begins with “Joy to the world, the Lord has come; let earth receive its King;” and then we sing, “Let every heart prepare him room.” Prepare him room, it says, or, make room for Jesus. The phrase brings to mind
(…continued) We see in the Bible that God chooses to do his most extra-ordinary work in very ordinary ways… There are a couple things to be said about that. First of all, there can be a problem with this method of working through the commonplace and ordinary. But secondly, there
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There are two perspectives from which we can view the Christmas story. Both are presented in the Bible. From one perspective, we see the greatest, most unexpected, most wonderful miracle of all time– the Almighty God of heaven and earth, Creator and Sustainer of the whole universe, decides to visit planet earth– and
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Painting above: The Journey of the Magi, by French artist James Tissot (1836-1902) ———————— (…continued) Years later, the little baby that the three Magi were seeking, would say, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened unto you.” I wonder if, when Jesus said that, he
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