No matter what is going on in your lives or our homes tonight, we pray that all of our hearts are expectant for the Lamb of God. May He fill us to overflowing and may we be completely at peace, so much so that the world can see Him shining through us today and every day of the year.
Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, but He also purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.
~Jerry Bridges~
John’s main message was to give knowledge of the One who can give us salvation––the remission of our sins. He revealed to us the Person who would be “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). It was Jesus!
As a pastor, I had faith, knowledge, and experience in walking with God. I taught the Bible, one of the great joys of my life. But suddenly I faced what has been described as “the dark night of the soul.”
This silent night was not golden. It was not the beautiful, hushed version of a Christmas carol. This was a numbing, anxiety-filled silence where God seemed far away or non-existent—when you’re not sure what you believe or what will happen for the rest of your life.
It is like being drawn into a dark hole with no sun, and no daylight.
While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell, a sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross, composed poems titled The Dark Night of the Soul.
He, who is very God & coessential with the Father and the Spirit, has assumed the human nature, taken upon Himself the sins of the elect, borne the punishment, fulfilled the law, & thereby reconciled the elect with God & merited their right to eternal life. —
Wilhelmus à Brakel
"You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself." —
Charles Spurgeon
The incarnation is not a subtraction. Jesus doesn’t cease being God by becoming a man. Jesus is truly God and truly man.
The more your body is sanctified, the more the appetites of it are subdued, the more its members are employed in the service of God, and the more will you have of God dwelling in you.
Jonathan Edwards
"Emmanuel. God with us. God has seen our need and has provided for us." —
Charles Spurgeon
"In the manger there he lies, unguarded from your touch and unshielded from your gaze. Bow the knee, and kiss the Son of God; accept him as your Saviour, for he puts himself into that manger that you may approach him." - Charles Spurgeon
"Of all the doctrines of the Bible, none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty." -J.C.Ryle.
Christmas was Satan’s worst nightmare. God in Christ came to reverse the curse and set captives free.
Since all things are of him and through him, so he intended they should be to him and also of uniting all chosen creatures one to another in one society in perfect union, one unto another. When he made the world, it was with this purpose.
Jonathan Edwards
God’s wounds cure but sin’s kisses kill. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:263
"It would be better to be given up to lions than to our hearts' lusts." —
Charles Spurgeon
"O God, impress upon me the value of time." -
Thomas Chalmers.
It is the bold Christian who can sing God’s sonnets in the darkness.
Charles Spurgeon
"Be an infidel, and none will therefore treat you contemptuously, but be a Christian, and many will despise you. “There was no room for him in the inn.” -
Charles Spurgeon
"Visit many good books, but live in the Bible." —
Charles Spurgeon
"Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry." -
Charles Spurgeon.
Will your heart always be heavy-laden? Would you not rejoice for once? And if your heart would rejoice, what could be more motivating than the incarnation of Christ? —
Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:515
The Holy Ghost is the sum of all spiritual good things.
Jonathan Edwards
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Saviour. • John Newton died on 21 December 1807
You may see the kings and lords of the earth; but the King of kings and Lord of lords you will never see, except you are born again.
D.L. Moody
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