December 16
CHRIST the ANGEL of the Lord: “In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them” (Isa 63:9). The Second Person of the Trinity is...
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December 15
CHRIST the PASSIONATE PREACHER: “Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (Mt 3:7). Christ did! Though they were a “brood of vipers,” He still wept over them and warned them. Take John Wesley’s Journal as an expression...
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December 14
CHRIST the INHERITANCE SHARER: “If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:17). Think of it, Christian! James Hastings writes: We are heirs of our Lord’s attributes. Is He omnipotent? His omnipotence is ours, to be...
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December 13
CHRIST the AWAKENER: “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up” (Jn 11:11). R.J. Campbell writes: It happened…that my only child fell ill, and for a time, as it seemed, dangerously ill. One day she...
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December 12
JESUS the DOER of GREAT THINGS: The Lord Jesus instructed the former demoniac of Gadara, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you” (Lk 8:39). But what did he do? “He went his...
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December 11
CHRIST the CAPTAIN: “It was fitting for Him,…in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Heb 2:10). Archibald Alexander writes: I heard lately of a beautiful instance of a poor man’s trust...
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December 10
CHRIST the HORN of SALVATION (Lk 1:69): Dear Christian, rejoice today in the fullness of our provision as expressed in 1 Peter 1:3-6. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…”—we have a SHARED life, inextricably linked...
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December 9
CHRIST the SUPREME OFFERING: “Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God” (Eph 5:2). Leonard Sheldrake tells a story from the days when a plastic coin called a mill was used...
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December 8
CHRIST with the MIGHTY NAME: “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong” (Acts 3:16). The infidel gives grudging proof to the power of Christ’s name by using, not the names of the founders of...
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