O sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done wonderful things . . . The Lord has made known His salvation . . . He has remembered His lovingkindness. (Psalm 98:1–3, NASB) This psalm calls God’s people to exuberant praise (98:1). The reason—His deeds (98:1) are reflective of His redemptive mercies (98:2) and faithfulness to

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Mark 1:1, NET) Mark 1:1 is something of a superscription; it is not a sentence having no verb. Yet, it tells us much about the special season that is upon us, the exuberant celebration of the greatest event in history: the coming into

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6, NASB) The apartment on Swiss Avenue was rather bare, our plight being little different than

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18, NASB) That Jesus came into our world is a fact made clear in the pages of Holy Scripture; it is

“…Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1, NIV). “What’s in a Title?” The opening line of Matthew’s description of the claims of a Galilean from Nazareth, an obscure village in the north of Israel (a blended Gentile-Jewish area), would have been met with shock and amazement, skepticism and ridicule by

 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you …” (Deuteronomy 18:15, NASB). The nation’s religious leadership sent a contingent of soldiers to arrest Jesus. They sought to silence Him because the throngs were “hanging on his words” (Luke 19:48). Enraged by their failure, the leadership demanded an explanation. “Why did