Day 11 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us. (John 1:14, AMP) Jesus carried something in human flesh that, up until His coming, had not been done before. In the Old Testament, a physical structure [...]

Day 10 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ (John 1:33) When Heaven opened on the day of Jesus’ baptism, it released Someone [...]

Day 9 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came fromheaven, “You are my beloved Son;with you I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:10-11, ESV) This [...]

Day 8 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be [...]

Day 7 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, But stripped Himself [of all privileges [...]

Day 6 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14) One of the most prominent identities of God that we celebrate during Advent is Emmanuel, which means God with us (see Matt. 1:23). We read Scriptures about this reality and sing beautiful songs about [...]

Day 5 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” (John 5:19) This is the second dimension [...]

Day 4 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Jesus Christ, the faithful witness… (Revelation 1:5) Jesus is a witness in two dimensions. Today, we are going to explore the first dimension, and this involves Jesus being the faithful witness of the Father. No one sees God the Father more closely and more clearly [...]

Day Three of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional “The supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us lies not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth became the ‘second [...]

Day Two of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional “As the sample man, He is showing what kind of man He can make. He is the model man after which you and I are patterned.” A.W. Tozer, Experiencing the Presence of God I absolutely love Advent season. It reminds me of the two-fold purpose [...]