It Starts Small

Category: Christ

  • Sure and Mighty Power

    On the last pages of God’s Word we see the final mention of Christmas. This Christmas story comes from a heavenly perspective. To the average onlooker in Bethlehem would have seen a couple teenagers and shepherds gathered around a baby. But the war of eternity was raging all around them. Satan knew the…

  • A passionate pursuit.

    Jesus was made lower. Lets ponder on that for a moment. The God who made the angels made Himself lower than His own creation. Imagine a potter being seen as lesser than his own creation. Imagine a painting receiving more merit than the painter. Seems crazy, yet this is the context…

  • Grace has Come

    How do we define the grace of God? Throughout history we have explained it as an unearned and undeserved favor of God. Our lives have only ever earned the wrath of God, but we are offered eternal life instead.  God’s grace is most clearly seen in Jesus. It is first seen in…

  • Peace and Reconciliation

    Jesus was never like other religious leaders on this earth, then and now. Muhammad, Buddha, Socrates, and Confucius were never said to be divine. Jesus is divine. Jesus was God wrapped in flesh and displayed as a baby. This is what makes the first Christmas so compelling. The God who threw the expanse of the…

  • Humility and Service Above Power and Majesty

    Christmas is about power and majesty of our Lord and Savior and King. Jesus is the ONLY rightful One to claim the throne and usher in a new kingdom. But it is not just about power and majesty. It is about humility and service. It is about the motivation through love to act in…

  • Condemnation

    Many people are turned away from Jesus because their view of Christianity is condemnation. They do no want to follow a grumpy God who frowns at their lifestyle. Where would they get this idea? They get this idea from the example of Christ and God from others. When someone who has an attitude and…

  • The Wrong Response

    When we read the gospels, we see many examples of how people rightly responded to the birth of Jesus. Mary, Joseph and the shepherds all responded in obedience and worship. Many others grasped the weight of the moment. Then there were some who did not have the right response and…

  • Not Like This

    Long ago, a promise was made that from the line of King David a Savior would be born. Joseph was from that line. All of the line of David knew some day another great King would be born, but not like this. Joseph did not think that his fiancée would…

  • Unexpected Visit

    The encounter between Mary and the angel always makes me in awe and wonder. I am sure it must have been an unexpected visit by Mary. I wonder what she was doing in the moment the angel came. Mary did not come from a prominent background. She was insignificant in…

  • “Let there be Light.”

    IN the beginning, God said, “Let there be light.” When God spoke, there was light. With the power of His Word, God illuminated the darkness. John uses the story of creation to tell us about the coming Jesus. In the same way God spoke light into existence, another light was…