incarnation

As the Father directly oversees every child’s conception, so He did with Jesus, with a startling difference. In this case, the child conceived was the Son who had always lived with His Father and the Holy Spirit.

What does God look like? He looks like Jesus, the Commoner King. When God became man, it looked like Jesus, and he still does.

As Christmas draws near I find myself asking, why did Jesus come as a baby –small and defenseless– and not a man ready to begin His ministry on earth?

At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Here are the implications that the incarnation has for God's plan for a new creation.

Jesus is our one Mediator, who stands as an agent to reconcile God and man, the One who participates both in deity and in humanity.

The miracle of the cross was made possible by the miracle of the incarnation.

All of that birthday stuff is just a distraction from the really good stuff.

The virgin conception of the Lord Jesus is both wonderful and meaningful; it points us to at least three facets of the incarnation.