The wonder of Christmas relates to two simultaneous truths:

1. God is unimaginably big and great

2. God makes himself unimaginably small

Idols: Things that help people secure their own power, image, position, and control

Paul’s message in Athens came down to two things: Jesus and the Resurrection

At the Areopagus Paul is not starting a fight–he is confirming their deepest hopes

Consider:

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on earth combined. And most of these stars have their own solar systems.

Consider:

The universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light; there is no conceivable way we could ever reach or even see to the end of it. And the expansion is accelerating.

Consider:

There are at least 400 billion planets just in our Milky Way galaxy alone. Do you know our best estimates of how many galaxies exist?

We often associate repentance with a chore, but biblically it is the beginning of freedom.

Do you know one of Rome’s ongoing problems with Christianity? Weakness.

How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire has become flesh, that life itself became life and walked in our midst? Christianity either means that, or it means nothing. –N.T. Wright

Hark the Herald: “Mild he lays his glory by, born that man no more may die.”