John 1:1-9<\/a>, where Jesus — The Word — is introduced in 3 different ways; the Word (vv. 1-2), the Light (vv. 3-4) and the Life (vv. 5-9).\u00a0 We see his pre-existence, his creative power, and his life-giving light, which overpowers darkness.\u00a0 I find it interesting that many religions claim that there needs to be a balance between good and evil.\u00a0 John 1:5 begs to differ.\u00a0 There is no balance; the Light overcomes the darkness, and the Light our life.<\/p>\nSome say God cannot be understood, but God most certainly wants<\/em> to be understood.\u00a0 If not, He wouldn’t keep trying, all throughout the Bible, to reveal Himself.\u00a0 True, we cannot know all there is about God, but it is also true that we can<\/em> know what He does reveal and what we are willing to see.\u00a0 After all, he came down at Christmas and became one of us and spent 3 years teaching us about Himself and what He is like.\u00a0 He will speak to us in our language and in a way we can indeed understand.\u00a0 What we learn may be difficult and, as mentioned, surprising, but that’s not His problem; that’s ours to overcome, with His guidance.<\/p>\nGod came into the world because He wants the world to know Him.\u00a0 He wouldn’t have made the effort if knowing Him was indeed impossible.\u00a0 During this Christmas season, get to know the God of Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last Sundays’ sermon was about meeting the God of Christmas.\u00a0 If Christmas says anything, it says that God is full of surprises. The text was John 1:1-9, where Jesus — The Word — is introduced in 3 different ways; the Word (vv. 1-2), the Light (vv. 3-4) and the Life (vv. 5-9).\u00a0 We see his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}