As the Day Ends As Advent evenings settle quietly around us, Scripture invites our hearts to slow down and look again at the way God chose to enter the world. Luke tells us with striking simplicity that Mary “gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in aContinue reading “The Manger and the Measure of True Riches”
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Born for Us, Bearing Our Scorn
As the Day Ends As Advent evenings settle quietly around us, Scripture invites us to hold together two truths that rarely coexist comfortably: the tenderness of Christ’s birth and the weight of His rejection. Isaiah describes the coming Servant as “despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain” (Isaiah 53:3),Continue reading “Born for Us, Bearing Our Scorn”