“To think that Christmas is more about the stable in Bethlehem than about the cross in Jerusalem is to regard the acorn as more important than the oak…The Christmas message is not merely the fact that God became man by being born of the virgin Mary; the Christmas message is the reason for the Incarnation: ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’”
Jesus held by the wood.
Delivered and delivering,
Jesus held by the wood.
Witnesses on either side.
Mary silhouetted,
quietly gazing
with great feeling
on her son,
the sky dark above.
As at the beginning,
so at the end.
Jesus held by the wood.
Delivered and delivering,
Jesus held by the wood.
The scene of Christmas
and of Calvary,
of the cradle
and the cross.
(Mark Dever)