Tag: Christmas
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Take Care With Biblical Prophecy
As I work through the Old Testament witness about Jesus’s First Coming for our the 25 Days of Christmas at Alex Southern Baptist Chapel, I’m noticing the same tendency to do too much with the biblical witness. I understand how tempting it is. We want everything to be a direct foretelling about Jesus so we…
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The Veracity of the Prophetic Witness
I’m always amazed at the accuracy of prophecy as recorded in the Bible. I’m currently looking at the prophetic witness leading up to Christmas for our church, a different part of the messianic prediction every day. Be sure to look for the 25 days of Christmas from Alex, that’s A-L-E-X, Southern Baptist Chapel. From 1,500…
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Good Tidings
Christmas is Sunday. The day we celebrate Christ’s birth. Whether or not some aspects of the way we celebrate have pagan roots or Christ’s birth was sometime in the Spring instead of Winter make for trivial and inconsequential debate. The fact is, Christ was born. We celebrate that birth. Proof that He was born King…
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Christ Alone, Not Only Christ
Salvation is in Christ alone. There is no arguing that fact, and why would you want to. Each one who is in Christ is saved by grace alone through faith alone. Our natures are set against God from birth. We are in darkness. We must each be born again to even see the kingdom of…
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Jesus’s Christmas Vision
Last year on Christmas Eve we exposited the Christmas praise in Luke 2:14 together. This year, we heard about the Christmas hope, Christmas faith, Christmas joy, and Christmas peace we enjoy because of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. We have reveled in His many promises for His people and His earth—promises of restoration, redemption, justification,…
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The Christian Hope
Why did Jesus have to come and die on a cross? Could God simply have created a world with no sin? Could He not have gotten people into heaven without having to die? It’s His wrath, could He not withhold it if He wanted to? Why worship Jesus? Why celebrate Him? I’m so glad you…
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This Christmas, Give What Matters
Many of us spend money we don’t have to buy people things they don’t really need. We use Christmas as an excuse to splurge and buy something big for ourselves. While we overindulge, there are orphans going hungry, children being kidnapped for slave trades, former Muslims who are exiled and homeless, Christians being persecuted and…
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Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men?
Thus rang the voice of the Angels as they made proclamation to the lowly shepherds about the birth of our Messiah, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”[1] In this moment, Roman oppression of the Jewish people had grown to such a point that it would have been…