With Every Spiritual Blessing

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless…

For He Will Save

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.  Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to…

Full of Grace and Truth

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.  This was the first census taken while  Quirinius was governor of Syria.  And all the people were on their way to register…

A Meditation for Christmas Day

Just look at Him.  He doesn’t look very remarkable lying there in the straw.  He seems very much as any other newborn ~ red and wrinkled and making sucking motions with His tiny mouth in His sleep.  Just the same,…

Prophecies of Christ’s Birth ~ revisited part II

Nicodemus is one of my favorite characters in the Bible.  I feel his inner struggle as he seeks Jesus in the garden, desperately longing to wrap his head around kingdom principles.  After his encounter with Jesus, he would discover his…