“Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16, NIV). The babe in Bethlehem, whom we celebrate at Christmas, is “Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and … his kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:32–33). “Messiah” (Hebrew) in […]

“Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father” (John 1:14, NET). I can never sleep on Christmas Eve. The secrets I’d tucked away in the attic are now under the tree, wrapped in

“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the LORD’” (Genesis 4:1, NKJV). If the normal and expected feelings of a woman who has just given birth to a living child are joy and ecstasy—following the pain of her labor—how boundless the joy must

“For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2, RSV). One unusual name for Jesus Christ is Suffering Servant. We don’t often associate leadership with serving,

“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS” (Luke 1:31, NKJV). The angel Gabriel was sent to announce to a virgin, “you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son” who was in truth the eternal coexistent Son of the Highest (Luke

“And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, ‘KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS’” (Revelation 19:16, NASB) Adorning the stairway wall of the main academic building on campus is a large etched glass print with these words: “All hail the power of Jesus’ name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring

“The Child . . . you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:20–21; 2:11, NASB). Last Christmas saw the release of the third movie in the Narnia series—The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Great movie. But I missed a cool line from C.S. Lewis’s book. In

“You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped” (Philippians 2:5–6, NET). As an exhortation to Christians to live ethically, the apostle Paul uses Christ Jesus as a model. Christians should

“You were redeemed … [by] the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world” (1 Peter 1:18–20, NIV). Christmas begins within the triune God—the Father’s planning, the Son’s choosing, the Spirit’s moving—before creation began. The Incarnation and sacrifice of the Savior is the final

“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved” (John 10:9, NASB). G. Campbell Morgan was a well-known Bible teacher from Great Britain who traveled to the United States a number of times. One of his trips was made on a ship with George Adam Smith, a great Old Testament scholar.