December 26
THIS SAME JESUS: “This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). “He is coming! He is coming!” cried the prophets, wrote the...
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December 25
JESUS: “You shall call His name JESUS” (Mt 1:21). James Hastings writes: “We meet the name for the first time in Numbers 16:16, where we read that “Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua” (meaning “Jehovah is salvation”). Jesus...
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December 24
JESUS the ONE to KNOW: “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us” (1 Jn 3:16). M.S. Braithwaite tells about a poor homeless waif, whose street name was “Little Broomstick.” She took sick one Christmas,...
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December 23
JESUS the DOVE MAN: “And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased’” (Lk 3:22). An old...
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December 22
JESUS the POOR MAN: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9). Solomon may not...
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December 21
CHRIST the SWEET SAVOR: “And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma” (Eph 5:2). Years ago, I read a story in the...
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December 20
JESUS the BRIGHTNESS of GOD’S GLORY: “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person” (Heb 1:3). Christ is here described as “the resplendent outbeaming of the essential glory of God” (Adam Clarke). He is...
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