Advent 2017

9th December 2017

Luke 1:34-37

And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.”

"She says, "This is the way of all flesh."


And Gabriel answers, "But you are about to see the ways of God."


Mary says, "No baby was ever conceived without a man as father."


And Gabriel answers, "This baby's father shall be no man, his father shall be God."


Mary says, "In every child the characteristics of both parents are manifest together."


And Gabriel agrees: "Yes, Jesus will be flesh like you - and like God he will be holy, truly the Son of God."

Preparing for Jesus, W. Wangerin Jnr.

TFL!
Bernie x

Advent 2017

8th December 2017

Luke 1:31-33

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

"So now, the Word. The very first word of the Herald from heaven,announcing the child to come.


Who is he? Who IS this Mercy, soon to be born among us?


Why! He shall be a king! He shall be THE king whom God has promised a thousand years earlier to David - not only a king LIKE David, but a king to fulfill all that David represented. For David was a king bounded by time and space. His reign existed within the history of humankind.


But this King shall gather time and space into his kingdom, and shall himself embrace the history of humankind, for of his kingdom "there will be no end."


David was anointed a son of God. David was adopted: "He said to me, 'You are my son, today I have begotten you.'" (Psalm 2:7). But this one will be BORN "Son of the Most high.""

Preparing for Jesus, W. Wangerin Jnr.

TFL!
Bernie x