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Christmas: John Calvin on the Magi

Matthew 2 1.Now when Jesus had been born How it came about that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Matthew does not

Matthew 1:18-25 The Birth of Christ 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Advent Text: John 1:19-28 (KJV) The Witness and Confession of John the Baptist; and the

It is not at all strange that human consideration and human speech are inadequate when we undertake to praise the

Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent Text: Matthew 11:2-10 (KJV) Christ’s Answer to the Question John Asked Him; His Praise

Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ

In the bosom of His Father, He existed before all the cycles of ages; born of an earthly Mother, He

A Sermon by Martin Luther; taken from his Church Postil of 1521. Text: Matthew 21:1-9 (KJV) 1. In the preface I

When the Word assumed flesh in time, so that He might enter into our temporal life, He did not, in

Editorial Note: Advent begins today. So too will begin many performances of Handel’s Messiah, one of the most famous and