observing ChristmasA gracEmail subscriber writes: "The church that I attend doesn't recognize Christ's birth at Christmas. Our minister talks about ... Mother's Day, ... Veteran's Day and ... Thanksgiving, but never do we hear a word about Jesus' birth during the Christmas season. We have a 'holiday' party ... and sing Jingle Bells but never Silent Night.
Christmas --prophecy fulfilledThis Christmas I am impressed anew that we are seeing biblical prophecy fulfilled before our eyes. Not the kind of prophetic fulfillment about which the sensationalists talk and write best-seller books for the gullible masses -- about Middle Eastern conflict and geopolitics and world banks and bar codes at the supermarkets. No, something far more solid and biblical than any of that!
when God became manThe greater miracle, it has been said, is not the virgin birth of Jesus but the fact that in that wondrous conception the eternal God took on human nature and the Creator condescended to join his creation. Mary's son is none other than Immanuel -- "God with us." . . . As marvelous as it is, compared to this truth the virginal conception is merely the mechanics.
Bethlehem's babies (two gracEmails)"It is hard to celebrate Christ's birth with joy when I read about Herod killing all the boy babies of Bethlehem. Can we find any beam of light shining through this horrible and senseless event?"
see also gracEmails on the son of God