“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” -Isaiah 9:2
O come all ye faithless, joyless and defeated.
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Christmas is for the weary, for the messed-up, and for the broken. If your life isn’t Instagrammable, Christmas is for you.
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.”
-S. Allberry via Twitter
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” -1 Timothy 1:15
You don’t understand the Christmas story unless you look into that manger and see a Lamb.” –Paul Tripp
“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” -Acts 1:11
Many are celebrating our Lord’s first coming this day; let us turn our thoughts to the promise of His second coming. This is as sure as the first advent and derives a great measure of its certainty from it. He who came as a lowly man to serve will assuredly come to take the reward of His service. He who came to suffer will not be slow in coming to reign.
This is our glorious hope, for we shall share His joy. Today we are in our concealment and humiliation, even as He was while here below; but when He cometh it will be our manifestation, even as it will be His revelation. Dead saints shall live at His appearing. The slandered and despised shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Then shall the saints appear as kings and priests, and the days of their mourning shall be ended. The long rest and inconceivable splendor of the millennial reign will be an abundant recompense for the ages of witnessing and warring.
Oh, that the Lord would come! He is coming! He is on the road and traveling quickly. The sound of His approach should be as music to our hearts! Ring out, ye bells of hope!
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
We hope you will be able to join us for our Christmas Candlelight Service this Sunday Evening, December 23 at 6:00 p.m.
1555 E. New Circle Road, Suite #186
Lexington, KY 40509
Map
We are located in Woodhill Circle Plaza.
(If you are facing Chuck E. Cheese, Stein Mart and Office Depot, we are on the right side of the shopping center. Our location faces Woodhill Drive.)
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
– 1 Timothy 1:15-
“You don’t understand the Christmas story unless you look into that manger and see a Lamb.”
Paul Tripp, via Twitter
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” -1 Timothy 1:15
“You don’t understand the Christmas story unless you look into that manger and see a Lamb.” -Paul Tripp, via Twitter
——
We would love to have you join us this evening for a special Christmas Eve service at 7:00 pm!
“For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” -Colossians 1:16-17
In awe of Christ’s deity…Jesus gave breath to His mom before she gave birth to Him. (Colossians 1:16-17) -David Platt via Twitter
“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” -Acts 1:11
Many are celebrating our Lord’s first coming this day; let us turn our thoughts to the promise of His second coming. This is as sure as the first advent and derives a great measure of its certainty from it. He who came as a lowly man to serve will assuredly come to take the reward of His service. He who came to suffer will not be slow in coming to reign.
This is our glorious hope, for we shall share His joy. Today we are in our concealment and humiliation, even as He was while here below; but when He cometh it will be our manifestation, even as it will be His revelation. Dead saints shall live at His appearing. The slandered and despised shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Then shall the saints appear as kings and priests, and the days of their mourning shall be ended. The long rest and inconceivable splendor of the millennial reign will be an abundant recompense for the ages of witnessing and warring.
Oh, that the Lord would come! He is coming! He is on the road and traveling quickly. The sound of His approach should be as music to our hearts! Ring out, ye bells of hope!
[from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon]
I hope you will be blessed by some of these Christmas-related posts I ran across this week:
And finally, I’ll leave you with a collection of thought-provoking tweets.
“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” -Matthew 1:21
That baby was born so that “he who had no sin” would become “sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” The baby’s destiny from the moment of his conception was hell—hell in the place of sinners. When I look into the manger, I come away shaken as I realize again that he was born to pay the unbearable penalty for my sins.
That’s the message of Christmas: God reconciled the world to himself through Christ, man’s sin has alienated him from God, and man’s reconciliation with God is possible only through faith in Christ…Christmas is disturbing.
[William H. Smith, as quoted by CJ Mahaney in “Disturbing Christmas“]
New Life Baptist Church 