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Christmas Mystery

Colin Dye — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:45:42 +0000

The Christmas story focuses on some the deepest mysteries of our faith. It speaks of God becoming human while yet remaining God. It tells of the infinite God contracting into finite space and a specific time zone, becoming as fully human as though he were never divine and yet remaining as fully divine as though he were never human.

The Christmas story focuses on some the deepest mysteries of our faith. It speaks of God becoming human while yet remaining God.

The term for this is, the Incarnation – God was manifest in the flesh and lived for a while among us. The origin of this distinctly Christian concept is the Gospels themselves. They tell, in simple and unembellished form, of the angel Gabriel coming to a certain family and revealing the birth of two great figures in religious history – John was to be born to Elizabeth and Jesus to Mary. Both would have a miraculous conception. John because his parents were old and his mother infertile. And Jesus, because he would not have a human father but be born to a virgin mother. John would become a great preacher but Jesus was to be called the Son of God.

The virginity of Mary shows in the Gospel story that this was not merely the creation of a new life, but the coming into the world of the Son of God. There was no procreation in the usual sense. No man was involved in the conception of Jesus, and neither is there any hint in the Gospels of the repulsive notion that God had sexual relations with Mary in order to have a son. The relationship between God the Father and God the Son (and indeed God, the Holy Spirit) is an eternal relationship. Christmas did not give the Father the son he never had, but it brought the eternal Son of the Eternal Father into the world by the agency of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus was, as the Gospel says, the Word made flesh (John 1:14). As the Word of God, Jesus always existed but through the incarnation he came into the world by a miraculous and immaculate virgin birth through the Holy Spirit. And so the Trinity is complete, and revealed in the Christmas story. This, once again, is something utterly unique to Christianity. We hold that God does not exist in a cold arithmetic oneness, but eternally in three divine inter-related persons, all fully divine and clearly distinguishable and yet, at the same time, remaining one person, one God. We do not believe, as we have been falsely accused of believing, in three Gods, but one God.

But how do we put all the pieces of this Christmas mystery together? Simple. God is a God of relationship, and he created us to have a relationship with him. The Christmas story is about God coming to restore a lost humanity back to relationship with himself. And only a fully relational God could or would even want to go that far. Thank God for the Christian revelation!

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Utterly Unique

Colin Dye — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:22:48 +0000

At Christmas time we celebrate one of the most central and most amazing truths of our Christian faith. The Incarnation is, after all, utterly unique. God, in the Person of His Son came down to be born as a man and to become our Redeemer. There is nothing that even begins to compare with this in any other religious belief, philosophy or ideology.

May God bless you this Christmas time as you celebrate His joy and Love as well as the utter uniqueness of your faith as a Christian. Colin Dye

Through the Incarnation we begin understand that God is one and yet more than one. He is three-in-one and these three Persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) all co-operate in perfect harmony. The whole Trinity is totally involved in the incarnation. The Father sent the Son, the Son came and the Holy Spirit brought it all about in the womb of the virgin girl, Mary.
These things have baffled the scientists, philosophers and theologians over all the ages. But every true person of faith learns to wonder and marvel at the mystery of it. And, more than that, we learn to open up to all the goodness and grace God pours into our lives through Christ.
The Incarnation shows us many practical things about our Christian faith. It shows us that God is concerned about community. He carries community in His very being. This means the very essence of our faith is not merely personal. It is communal. Let’s make a real effort to express community by reaching out to others in the festive season.
Also, the Incarnation helps us see that God is very concerned about the world He created. He did not abandon us to our sin. Instead, He drew so close that He became one of us and, apart from sin, lived exactly the kind of life we all live. God is not ashamed of the physical world. He is deeply involved in it and cares about every single detail of it – including you.
Finally, the Incarnation shows us the plan God has for our lives. Jesus didn’t shed His humanity when He went back to heaven. He lived and died as a man and was raised again into full humanity and He took this glorified humanity back to heaven where He lives today.
This means that God has a plan for you to follow Jesus and find in Him the hope of eternal salvation and the redemption of your entire personality – spirit, soul and body.
May God bless you this Christmas time as you celebrate His joy and Love as well as the utter uniqueness of your faith as a Christian.

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Going Deeper – God Revealed

Colin Dye — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:35:03 +0000

God sending his Son into the world that first Christmas was his open invitation to the world to get to know him. The revelation of the Father in the Son is the greatest act of God’s self-disclosure in all human history. Nothing could ever surpass this. Jesus was able to say, “He who has seen me has seen the Father”. He was and remains forever “the express image of God and the very stamp bearing the very likeness of God’s being and nature”.

The enormity of this is mind-boggling. That God would become a man in the Person of his Son, Jesus Christ, is an act of almost unimaginable humility.

The enormity of this is mind-boggling. That God would become a man in the Person of his Son, Jesus Christ, is an act of almost unimaginable humility. That God could do it is easy to understand. God can do anything. He is not so big that he cannot become small. His love drove him to do it. He wanted us to see him that we could know him and enter into deep communion with him.
The apostolic witness is clear: That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1:3).
The apostles saw him, heard him, and even touched him. They proclaimed their witness in truth and humility. It happened, just the way they said. And this message makes it possible for us to see him and to know him, not through his physical presence, but by the faith he gives making him just as real to us as he was to them.
We know that our faith rests ultimately on the revelation of God made known through facts of history. The incarnation, the crucifixion and the resurrection are not just nice ideas to lift our spirits through certain festivals of the Church. They remind us that God is real and is drawing us close to himself.
For those who have never received Christ into their life he says, “Come to me”, and for those who already know him, he says, “Come closer”. May God give you an ever deepening relationship with himself, this Christmastime and forever.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! From Colin and Amanda Dye

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The coming of Jesus

Colin Dye — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:51:11 +0000

Jesus, the Lion of Judah

Christianity is a faith rooted in history. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the birth of Christ. Born into our world of space and time, God showed Himself in history. The facts are well known. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the Great, who was King of Judea from 37 – 4 BC, during the reign of the Roman Emperor, Augustus.
Also, God has shown us through the Incarnation (meaning God-in-flesh) that He is not a God “out there’ who is uninvolved in His world. He is deeply concerned about His creation. This concern moved Him to be born into the world and, apart from sin, experience the same joys and sorrows and the same pleasures and pains that we experience. Never again can humankind ask, “Where is God?” or “What is He like?” God has been seen and handled (1 John 1:1). The Son has made Him known (John 1:18).
Furthermore, every day of the life of the incarnate Son of God was a word about humanity. This is humanity as it was meant to be. Through the incarnation, God has sanctified our life on earth and shown that it is possible to be both holy and human.
A MYSTERY
At the same time, the Incarnation itself raises questions that cannot be adequately explained. Attempts to formulate tidy explanations have consistently failed, often ending in heresy and disaster. Man’s mind is unable to grasp fully the truth of God. The Incarnation is a mystery. How can the infinite God be contained in the finite form of a man? How can He become man and yet stay God? How can the feeble foetus in the womb of the virgin girl be the Mighty God or the Everlasting Father? The how we cannot grasp, but we must and do believe the facts revealed in the Word of God.

A painting of Jesus

Our rightful response is that of faith. We believe, we accept and we bow before the sublime revelation of God in Christ. Leaving aside needless speculation we humble our hearts and, in worship and adoration, fall down before the One who humbled Himself to come as a man into our world.
On the other hand, we must take care not to fall into the trap of letting what we do not know spoil what we do. Although there remains much that we cannot understand, we are able to appreciate what God has made clear to us. The Scriptures have a lot to say about the Incarnation.

The incarnation was predicted in the Old testament

THE INCARNATION PREDICTED – OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY
The coming of Christ did not happen suddenly and without preparation. As in everything, God was working to His timetable and saw to it that Christ came in the fullness of time (Galatians 4:4). For many centuries God was working through Israel and the events of world history until the climax broke at the coming of Christ. Part of the preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ involved the giving of numerous Old Testament prophecies which predicted the Incarnation in one form or another.
THE OFFSPRING OF THE WOMAN
The first of these was given in the midst of the surrounding gloom that was a result of the fall of man. In Genesis 3:15, God promises that the offspring of the woman would crush the head of the serpent. This is the first ray of hope beaming from God to man in his desperate condition.
A PROPHET LIKE MOSES
Another significant prediction is found in Deuteronomy 18:15. A prophet, whom God likens to Moses, was to come from among the nation of Israel. This was not fulfilled during Moses’ lifetime (see Deuteronomy 34 v 10-12), and by the time of Christ, the hope of this prediction was still held very firmly (see John 1:21 and John 6:14). It appears that in the minds of the first century Jews, there was some connection between this long-awaited prophet and the promised Messiah. In Acts 3: 22; Peter confirms that the coming of Jesus was in fulfilment of ancient prophecy.
BORN TO BE KING
“Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews?” (Matthew 2:1). This was the question put to Herod by those who came from the East in search of the new-born Christ child. Herod’s jealousy caused him to consult the chief priests and teachers of the law about the predicted birthplace of the Messiah. His aim was to seek out and destroy this potential rival to the throne.
The reply was unanimous, for the prophet Micah, over 500 years before, had accurately described the birthplace of the Messiah: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah . . . out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel’ (Micah 5:2 NIV and Matthew 2: 5 – 6).
The birth of Christ had brought to an end many centuries of waiting in expectation for the arrival of the promised King of Israel. A promise had been given in 2 Samuel 7, of one who would come as God’s appointed leader to govern His people. This King was to be known as the “Anointed One’ or “Messiah’.
A CHILD IS BORN
In Isaiah 9:6 there is a startling prediction that describes the coming of Christ in the familiar language of the Christmas story: “For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given.’ This verse is found in the middle of a description of the promised ruler governing in victory. His rule is said to be a rule of peace. It will be unlimited in its sphere of influence. Justice and righteousness will flow from this eternal rule (see Isaiah 9:1 – 7). This ruler is called “Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (v 6)’. At the same time the prophecy describes how this One, whose shoulders will carry the very government of God, will come in the first place as a child!
Matthew quotes this prophecy showing how it is fulfilled in Jesus Christ (See Matthew 4 v 13 – 16).
IMMANUEL – GOD WITH US
In Isaiah 7 v 10 – 18, Isaiah the prophet promises Ahaz the king of Judah that the Lord would give him a sign that the alliance between Syria and Israel would fail. The sign was as follows: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel’ (Isaiah 7 v 14).
This was a prophecy which was given, in the first instance, for the historical situation of that day. Matthew in his gospel, however, shows how these words were literally fulfilled in the birth of Jesus (Matthew 1:22 – 23).
BORN OF A VIRGIN
It is a deeply significant fact that Christ was born of a virgin girl. It highlights His uniqueness having been born in this unique way. The infant Jesus was not conceived through a human father but by the miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit (see Matthew 1:18 – 23). Luke agrees and records the words of the angel to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, so the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God’ (Luke 1:35). This was a clear testimony to the fact that the child was to be special. It was God’s attestation to the arrival of the Son of God into the world.
HOW JESUS CAME
THE WORD BECAME FLESH
In John 1 v 14 we read “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us’. This is how Jesus came into the world. The Eternal Word became man. Although this description is short, it tells us a great deal. It emphasises the complete manhood of the Incarnate Christ. He who was fully God now became man in the fullest sense. The contrast between the two modes of existence is stark. The Word was now frail flesh. The Word “became’ emphasises the completeness of this act. It took place at a definite point in time. It does not mean that the Word changed into man, but that the Word took upon Himself the nature of humanity. Human nature was added to the already existing divine nature of the Word. The result was that the Creator of all things dwelt amongst His creatures. The Infinite God in the person of the divine Word lived, a Man among men.
HE MADE HIMSELF NOTHING
The act of the Incarnation is also described by the Apostle Paul. In Philippians 2:7, he writes that Christ “made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.’
The personal cost of the Incarnation is summed up in the statement “He made Himself nothing…’ In 2 Corinthians 8 v 9, Paul describes it like this: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich’. His Incarnation was an act in which He shed the outward display of His glory. Christ felt this loss keenly and looked forward to repossessing it after His crucifixion (see John 17:5).
MAN FOREVER
The New Testament teaches that the Incarnation has become the new permanent mode of existence for the Son of God. This is a staggering thought. Christ died a man, was raised a man, and now lives forever as a man glorified at the Father’s right hand. In Colossians 2:9, Paul describes the present condition of Christ: “For in Christ, all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form’. The book of Hebrews emphasises the fact that Christ, as our heavenly High Priest is also man. “He is our Mediator – the Man Christ Jesus’ (1 Timothy 2: 5).
As a man, He is the Head of a new humanity, the Firstborn from among the dead (Colossians 1:18). He has been made like His brothers in every way (Hebrews 2:17). Therefore, God fulfils His purpose of bringing many sons to glory through Him, the great human pioneer of their salvation (Hebrews 2:10).
WHY JESUS CAME
The gospel shows why it was necessary for the Son of God to become man. He had to come in this way in order to fulfil His role as Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5 – 6). As the Incarnate Word, He revealed God to us in a clear and tangible form (John 1:14 & 18). Because He was human He could suffer and die for our sins (Colossians 1: 2; Hebrews 2:9 & 14; 1 Peter 2 v 24). As man He could be the last Adam, the Head of the new redeemed humanity (Romans 5:15 – 19; 1 Corinthians 15:22 & 45). Through His experiences as a man on earth He could become our Great High Priest in heaven. Because He has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet without sin, He is able to sympathise in our weakness and help us in our times of temptation (Hebrews 2:17 & 18; 4:15 – 16).
Because these things are so, to reject the Incarnation is to reject a cardinal truth or orthodox Christianity (1 John 4:2 – 3). Without it there could have been no cross and therefore, no salvation. Furthermore, the doctrine has its relevance for Christian conduct. For, to accept the Incarnation as taught in the New Testament is to find a key to living for God. The revelation of God Incarnate revives in all true believers a sense of wonder and marvel at divine grace and a desire to godly lives. After all, who can gaze for long at the “glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ’, and not be dazzled at its brilliance? Or, who can meditate on “God manifested in the flesh’ and not soon himself be awakened to a life of godliness?

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Christmas:Understanding the reason behind the season

Colin Dye — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:04:57 +0000

Logos is the greek word for "reason" or for "word"

We read in John 1:14, that the ?Word became flesh.? The Word is none other than the Divine Word, the Logos of God, and he ?became flesh.? That is, the frail, vulnerable flesh common to all humanity. He became so completely human that, despite being God, he was in all respects like us, apart from sin. God has appeared in human form. He lived for a while (literally, he pitched his tent among us), to reside here temporarily, before he returned to the Father, taking his humanity with him.

My little Greek Christmas!

Why not add a little Greek to your Christmas celebrations? The New Testament as we have it is a translation from the original Greek text. The translators usually do a great job, but as in any communication there are bound to be treasures buried in the original that are lost in translation. So don?t be put off by a little Greek. Study the Strongs concordance definitions highlighted in this article and you will add a new richness to your Christmas!
The short life of the Word-made-flesh among us changed everything! Never again will we wonder what God is like? Jesus has forever revealed the Father. Never again will God be intangible, invisible and elusive to us ? Jesus has shown God in physical form so that eyewitness testimony can describe him and we can know him personally. Never again can we question our purpose ? it is to receive God?s grace and to behold his glory in the person of Christ. And it is to become sons and daughters of the Word-madeflesh? so that the Word may become flesh in us and we can show him to the world.

Full of Grace and Truth

The heart of the matter is that the Word (Logos) is full of grace and truth, and he is the glory of God we see in the real Christmas story. Truth is on the side of grace. That means we hold on to the truth by God?s grace and we live out that truth by the same grace. Law has absolutely nothing to do with it for, ?the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came (literally ?appeared in person?) through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).
The effects of this grace-truth appearing are incalculable! Now, we don?t just know about God; but we know him, personally. We receive his light and his life ? the very life that gives light to the whole world. The very source and ground of our being, and of everything else that is, lives with us and lives in us!

The Reason behind the Season

The divine ?Reason?, the Logos of God, is why we celebrate Christmas. God has made his thoughts and intentions clear. He has spoken to us in his Son ? his full and final revelation to humanity. It is complete, clear and visible. All that Jesus did and said was a revelation of the thoughts, intentions and attitudes of the Father. And, it is all good news! God cares. He did not send a messenger to tell us that ? he came himself, to show it through the words and actions of the Word-made-flesh.

It is time to think

The Logos is God?s reason, the rational thought and the reality that lies behind the universe. Everything in creation is the expression of that thought. Our capacity to reason and to understand comes from this gift of God?s creation. John says that this divine reason is evident to all humanity. Jesus, the Word, who came into the world?gives light to every man? (John 1:9).

?The Word? ? the Divine Logos*

STONGS NT:3056 logos (log?-os) something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ).
This is the same truth found in Romans 1:20 where Paul says,?Since the creation of the world God?s invisible qualities ?his eternal power and divine nature ? have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.? That is why there is no excuse. The divine light has shone into our hearts and our choice is to receive it, or to suppress it.
The suppression of truth is everywhere, and this points to the need to shine the truth into the darkness, dispelling the gloom. The light of life shone that first Christmas morning and our Christmas lights testify to it today. The challenge is to let our light continue to shine when the decorations come down!
?Became flesh?*STONGS NT:4561 sarx (sarx); flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul [or spirit], or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties [physically or morally] and passions), or (specifically) a human being.
Rekindle the flame of truth, beauty, nobility and passion in your heart and let the newly-trimmed lamps of Christmas wonder illuminate the darkness. Become a true warrior of this light.
The Logos, reminds us that there is reason behind the season, and everything else that is Christian. Your mind matters because ideas have consequences. It is time for Christians to think! Who said you kiss your brains goodbye when you commit your life to Christ. He is the answer to every question, the response to every need ?intellectual, moral and spiritual. We have the mind of Christ, the reason of God and the thoughts of the Spirit because the Logos lives in us.

It is time to speak

Logos is thought but, more than that, it is thought expressed in word. Jesus is God?s speech. His word going forth. Our faith is not the mystical contemplation of voiceless expression. God spoke, and worlds came into being. God spoke and Christ came. God speaks today and gives you a voice to love him and to proclaim him as a trumpet call to a waiting world.
When Jesus spoke, they marvelled at his gracious words. The Logos speaks through you in the same way. Let your voice be heard ? clear and confident, warm and affirming, strong and assuring. The angels at Christmas proclaimed,?Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and good will have come!? This is the most positive message of hope the world could ever wish for and is longing to hear. But, they cannot hear unless it is proclaimed. Be a herald this Christmas. Tell the world of his love and favour. Grace! Grace! Grace! to all who will hear. Make it clear ?God receives sinners, and to all who receive his Christ, he gives the right, the privilege and the authority to become his children (John 1:12).
Through the word coming from Christ in you, you can replace error with truth, indifference with passion and law with grace. Let the world know truth has come and that truth speaks today ? Christ the Word of God!

It is time to act

Perhaps the greatest revelation of the Logos at Christmas is that the invisible has become visible the untouchable, touchable. John writes in his letter, ?That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched ? this we proclaim concerning the Word (Logos) of life? (1 John 1:2). John says, in effect, ?We know he is real ? he came, and we saw him, we heard him speak and we even touched him!?
The apostles witnessed all these things ? his words and actions ? and as eyewitness, they gave trustworthy accounts of it. Their testimony is the truthful witness behind the Gospels. But their proclamation carried its own mark of authenticity. So must ours. The apostles did not merely speak, they acted. Everything they believed and taught was also visible in their lives. Their actions testified to the truth of their beliefs.
There is always a crisis of credibility when our lives do not match up to our beliefs. Jesus is the empowering word, the very life of God in us. He must be seen in us. We would be heard more if we acted more. Take the important moral issue of the sanctity of life for example. How will the world take notice our protest against abortion, if we do not look after the pregnant mother who believes abortion is the only answer because she could never cope with a child as a single parent? How can we condemn our liberal laws against unwanted pregnancies due to a disability diagnosed while the baby is still in the womb, when we do nothing to help families with severely handicapped children?
Words and works go together just as truth-in-action is far better than mere truth without visible expression.?And dwelt (pitched his tent) among us?*STONGS NT:4637 skenoo (skayno?-o); from NT:4636; to tent or encamp, i.e. (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or (specifically) to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old, a symbol of protection and communion):

Showing Christ at Christmas

Christmas, despite prolonged attempts by local and national government, is still a national Christian festival. The world loves it ? not always for the right reasons! But we have the true reason for the season ? God?s Reason, his Divine Logos. Let this Reason live in you, at Christmas and throughout the whole year to come. Let him think, speak and act through you. Then the world may begin to realise that Grace has truly come to the world, and his name is Jesus, the Word of God. He is the Reason behind the Season.
*All Greek word definitions are quoted from Biblesoft?s New Exhaustive Strong?s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright ? 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.

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The Mystery of Godliness

Colin Dye — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:08:53 +0000

The three wise men followed a bright shining star

The Christmas season is upon us once again! Out with the decorations, in with the cards, the?gifts, and the decisions as to where and how we will celebrate this year. As we all know, the ‘packaging’ of this Christian festival sometimes obscures the reality of Christ’s birth and the true reason for the season. But we can choose not to be distracted by the mistletoe and the tinsel. We can choose instead to be centred on the mystery and the truth of Christ’s coming into the world.
Paul describes it like this:

“Great is the mystery of godliness – God manifested in the flesh”

Without a doubt our faith is fully of mystery, and that is not an excuse to believe the ridiculous and to throw out our logic and common sense. But the plain fact is that only a statement like Paul’s can do justice to the evidence of the Gospels. Jesus was no ordinary person. He was born of a virgin, and was the focus of miraculous signs indicating that he was special – the star witnessed by the wise men from the East, the angels declaring “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth goodwill towards men!” This extraordinary birth led to an extraordinary?life?causing people to wonder in amazement: “Who is he who commands the demons to leave, the waves to be still and the dead to be raised?” The answer is the mystery of the Christmas message – God manifested in the flesh. No surprise that the prophet Isaiah said,

“He shall be called Wonderful”

The wonder of Christ has captured the hearts and minds of countless millions down through the centuries – from peasants to princes, from kings to kids. Brendan, the great missionary to the north during the Middle Ages, tells of an encounter with the pagan King Brude. The king asked him, “If I believe your message, and become Christ’s man, what shall I find?” To which, the evangelist replied,

“You shall stumble upon wonder upon wonder – and every wonder true!”

I pray that this Christmas we will stumble again upon the wonder of the Christ and discover afresh the mystery of godliness for all our lives, for our friends and for our families.

Merry Christmas!

What do you want for Christmas? Salvation is the greatest gift of all.

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