December 05 2011 / Posted by Asst. Pastor Stevie Roy
A Christmas Greeting
My prayer is that as this year closes and a new one opens, we are struck afresh by the wonderful reality that God came to us.
God could have arrived in so many ways, but He chose to live and grow inside Mary and be born through the natural process. He was totally dependant on His mother in those early years, and incidentally, I think he did cry. He grew as a child into adolescence and on into manhood, without sin…wow! He grew in stature and in favour with His Father, and with His fellow men. And all the while He was obedient to His Father - all this so that He could redeem us. What a Saviour. May our Christmas be all the more blessed for His presence with us.
Stevie
PS Thanks once again to all who have supported us in so many ways this year. We really appreciate it.
Comments
I like the Christmas red for a change and I’m praying that people will understand that the Christmas story is history not just a story in the usual sense. It is a mind-boggling event that would blow the minds of people today - it’s just lost its impact by being so familiar.
Posted by Gillian Reid on December 05 2011
“God could have arrived in so many ways, but He chose to live and grow inside Mary and be born through the natural process.”
How very true… I’d never thought about it like that before!
I pray that everyone reading this will have a happy and blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Posted by Laura Gibson on December 06 2011
We can always rely on Pastor Stevie to help us look at the things of God in a new light. Thank you Pastor Stevie, God bless you too.
Posted by Rona McSherry on December 06 2011
Really true Stevie,may you and the whole church be blessed this Christmas and may 2012 hold great and incredible things for us all “greater things are yet to come” 
Belinda
Posted by Belinda on December 07 2011
“Plato wrote from about 427 to 347 B.C. The earliest copies of his writings that we have were produced around A.D. 900, nearly 1,200 years after the originals. We have only seven copies…. Thanks to bibliographical testing, experts confirm the authenticity of documents by Caesar, Plato, Aristotle, and Tacitus and the reliability of the authors. So let us apply the same test to biblical writings and to New Testament documents. The books of the New Testament (Bible) were probably written between A.D. 40 and A.D. 70. The earliest manuscript copies date from about A.D. 130, only 90 years after the originals. More than 24,000 copies of manuscripts, texts and quotes exist in many ancient languages.”
It’s not just a fanciful story. It’s a historical fact.
Jesus was who he said he was.
Posted by Stevie Roy on December 08 2011
I agree, what a saviour that he would leave the splendour of Heaven to come into a world that didn’t really welcome him as their King. Instead they hurled abuse at him, tortured him, rejected him and subjected him to the most horrific death the world has ever seen.
Why?
Love
Posted by Steve Georgiou on December 05 2011