The Christmas season in our culture has become a lot of things, and a good number of them have nothing to do with Christmas. Strip away all that has attached itself to the word, “Christmas” and what rises above everything else is the actual purpose of the Christmas season.
God was on a rescue mission.
It is the mission above all missions. It was an objective birth in the very heart of a triune God. Paul explains this mission well in II Corinthians 5:19 when he writes that, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has given to us this message of reconciliation.”
The entire Bible is rooted and grounded in the story of redemption. That timeless story has a miraculous and beautiful chapter that begins with a birth in a place called Bethlehem and ends with a resurrected life at an empty tomb. [Read more…]