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Background to the nativity story. A Christmas meditation.

God recently allowed me to see Jesus through the eyes of someone seeing Him for the first time. Having the advantage of knowing how the story ends, we can easily forget the cost of our redemption and the love of our Savior.

Author: Dr. S.D. Gordon

Did you ever visit the manufactory of splendid porcelain at Sèvres, France? I have done so. If anybody should say to me, “Do you know the manufactory at Sèvres?” I should say, “Yes, I do, and no, I do not. I know it, for I have seen the building. I have seen the rooms in which the articles are exhibited…

Let me compare salvation to a book, of which Jesus is the sole author. No one has contributed a line or a thought thereto. He has never asked any human mind to write a preface to His work; the first word is from His pen. Some of you are trying to preface Christ’s work, but your toil is fruitless; He…

I have read of a competition of certain young plowmen who were set to plow for a prize. Most of them made very crooked work of it. After they had ended, one of the judges said, “Young man, where did you look while you were ploughing?” “I kept my eyes on the plow handles, sir, and saw what I had to hold.”…

That was an eloquent speech of Henry VI of France, when on the eve of battle, he said to his soldiers, “Gentlemen, you are Frenchmen. I am your King. There is the enemy!” Jesus Christ says, “You are my people. I am your leader. There is the foe!” How shall we dare to do anything unworthy of such a Lord…

When you know a man, if he is your intimate friend, you trust him, you love him, you esteem him, you are on speaking terms with him. You not only bow to him in the street, but you go to his house, you sit down with him at his table. At other times, you hold counsel with him, or you ask his assistance.…

Look at Alexander. He is a great conqueror, but what a pitiful creature he appears when the drunkard’s bowl has maddened him. What a poor thing is Napoleon as seen in privacy! In his captivity he was as petulant as a spoiled child. Consider the Lord Jesus, and it does not matter where you view Him. In…

Sometimes, when a physician has a sick man before him—suppose it is on board ship—he may have to say to him, “I think I could cure your disease if I could get such-and-such a medicine. But, unfortunately, I do not have the drug within my reach.” Or the doctor might have to say to the sufferer, “I believe…

When the Moravian missionaries first went to Greenland, they were months and months teaching the poor Greenlander about the Godhead, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the doctrine of sin and the law, and no converts were forthcoming. But one day, by accident, one of the Greenlanders happened to read that…

A stone thrown about from hand to hand is self-contained and independent, but when the mason puts it on the foundation it is dependent. It leans on the cornerstone upon which it is placed. Poor tempted soul, that is just what you have to do. You must not be a loose stone resting on yourself and tossed…

People will counterfeit anything they can get away with, it seems. A New York woman was arrested after she was caught driving with a cardboard license plate that she had made at home. Police caught her when they noticed that she did not have a front plate to match. Counterfeits are everywhere. Jesus…

In his book, A Shared Christian Life, regarding the concept of “a personal relationship with Jesus,” Ben Witherington III wrote, “There is something odd about this whole question because the New Testament says absolutely nothing about individuals having a ‘personal’ relationship with Jesus, in that precise…

An Indian man named Jayesh was deeply committed to his beliefs, until he met a local pastor. As they were walking through the village one day, the Pastor stopped to tell Jayesh about his love for Jesus. Jayesh became very angry and accused the pastor to trying to convert people to Christianity. He warned…

The universe is full of asteroids and comet debris that bombards the planets. The giant planet Jupiter with its gravitational pull acts as a vacuum sucking these potential threats from space. Experts believe that an asteroid crashes into Jupiter as often as once a week. That space cleaning effort is…

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the three compatriots – Potter, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger – traverse through a series of puzzles to prevent the theft of the Philosopher's Stone, desired by the Lord Voldemort to restore his power. The final challenge involves a game of Wizard's Chess.…

I wonder what our children think when they hear us singing the hymn, Power in the Blood? As it turns, there is literal power in the blood. Chemists built a biofuel cell that generates power from glucose sugar in snail’s blood. They drill a hole through the snail’s shell and then implant electrodes in…