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GOOD NEWS IN THE FACE OF BAD


The birth of Jesus Christ was the most momentous event in human history. There was a reason that a young Jewish virgin named Mary conceived Eternal God the Son in her womb by the Holy Spirit. The Word was made flesh, God the Son taking His humanity from Mary, for an eternally crucial reason. Mankind was lost in the thrall of sin and the deception that life could be fully lived without any meaningful relation to God, the Creator. The spiritual, moral, ethical, and relational chaos of heart that had become the human norm in recorded history was what Jesus came to undo.


Most do not want to hear the truth about their need, their powerlessness and God's answer to the problem of death-dealing sin in the human heart: the Incarnation, Life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ...and THAT alone.


Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Holy One of Israel, is humanity's only hope of the repentance, forgiveness, redemption, wholeness, and human flourishing; being restored to God by grace through faith.


God, the Son, invaded planet Earth, to rescue us from the death that had become our norm. Jesus' birth changed everything, for God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son to the end that all who would believe in Him would have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.


You have to be faced with the bad news before Jesus' birth becomes Good News. You need a Savior, and he has been born in time, Christ the Lord. Blessed Christmas!




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