Louisville church of CHRIST

Of all the stories that this world has ever seen or heard ... the Christmas story has to be the best. No Christmas ... No Easter

Why this slavish fear? Because at the bottom of this terror ... lay their sin.

Sin makes miserable cowards of us all.

Our LORD JESUS CHRiST is in some senses more man than Adam. Adam was not born; Adam never had to struggle through the risks and weaknesses of infancy; he knew not the littlenesses of childhood – he was full grown at once. Father Adam could not sympathize with me as a babe and a child. But how man-like is JESUS! HE is cradled with us in the manger; HE does not begin with us in mid-life, as Adam, but he accompanies us in the pains and feebleness and infirmities of infancy, and HE continues with us even to the grave. Beloved, this is such sweet comfort. HE that is GOD this day was once an infant: so that if my cares are little and even trivial and comparatively infantile, I may go to HIM for HE was once a child.

Man's greatest fears; death, being alone and the unknown. But the baby born in the manger ... JESUS HIMSELF is able to extinguish all those fears.

Till GOD in human flesh I see,
My thoughts no comfort find;
The Holy, just and sacred Three,
Are terrors to my mind.

But if Immanuel's face appear,
My hope, my joy begins;
HIS name forbids my slavish fear,
HIS grace removes my sins.