Category: Heart of Christmas

One Person—Two Natures In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came...

Immanuel In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. —Colossians 2:9 The reason we rejoice at Christmas is that the Baby born to Mary and Joseph on the first Advent was no ordinary child. As Matthew records,...

Tidings of Comfort and Joy For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the...

Census Considerations In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to...

Genealogies of the Babe of Bethlehem A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham. —Matthew 1:1 Despite the wealth of evidence that supports the historical reliability of the Gospels, some...

In the Fullness of Time But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. — Galatians 4:4–5 Jesus Christ, the antitype...

A Pagan Festival? Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality,...

The Golden Key of Messianic Prophecies And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he [Jesus] explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. —Luke 24:27 Prophecy represents one of the most powerful...

Isaiah’s Prophecy All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.” —Matthew...

The Long-Awaited Christ Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. —Luke 2:11 We begin our journey to the heart of Christmas by zeroing in on the word Christ. In a biblically illiterate...