Merry Christmas, my friends! I trust you will enjoy a day spent with friends and family as you remember and celebrate the birth of our Savior.
Today’s Kindle deals include a popular book on prayer by Alistair Begg. There’s also a book that your teens might enjoy.
(Yesterday on the blog: 10 General Market Books I Enjoyed in 2025)
Jesus Is Unashamed to Take Awkward Family Christmas Photos
Benjamin Vrbicek: “In many ways, the Old Testament can be seen as a massive coffee-table photo book. Sometimes the photos are stunning. But for any Old Testament family with a decent collection of pictures, there are—without exception—some awkward family photos. We read about priests and kings, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, who we’d be ashamed to claim as family. Would Abraham have stuck Lot’s picture on his fridge at Christmas? Would you?”
What if Charles Wesley Had Written Joy to the World?
Fred Sanders looks at Charles Wesley’s equivalent to Isaac Watts’ “Joy to the World.” “Watts and Wesley are both interested in the question of how the world itself can be said to sing, but I think they approach it differently.”
An Irish Christmas Selection Box 2025
Seth Lewis takes us to Ireland to share a selection of Christmas songs, articles, and more.
Marginalising the Messiah
Kamal Weerakoon: “As we once again ponder the incarnation of God the Son, let’s recommit ourselves to worshiping him as the humble God who ‘abhorred not the virgin’s womb.’ As part of that worship, let’s identify and admit the ways we tend to operate the opposite to God.”
Jesus Showed Up: The In-Person Visit of the Incarnation
“In a world increasingly remote, Christmas teaches the power of actually showing up and being in the same room — not merely because so many of us still have the habits of visiting and hosting at Christmas, but because Christmas itself celebrates the supreme Visit.”
Perfect Peace is Knowable
Because of Christ’s incarnation, perfect peace is knowable. “Through faith in Jesus Christ, His perfect peace can be experienced in every way at all times regardless of how many burdens are being carried. The Lord gives His people strength. He blesses us with peace that guards and rules our heart.”
Flashback: May This Be A True Christmas In Your Heart
May this be a true Christmas in my heart. Take away all unbelief, all bitter thought and feeling, all resentment and unforgiveness, all unholy desire and give me love—love that is patient and kind, that is not provoked, that thinks no evil, that seeks not its own.
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, as important as that is, but what’s so significant about the birth of that particular baby is that in this birth we have the incarnation of God Himself.
—R.C. Sproul
