CMP Review 2024-12-24

December 24, 2024

“One of their chief objections to the Christian religion is that it is mysterious,” wrote Rev. Francis Lewis. “They lose patience with it. Everything, they think, in religion ought to be clear, plain and straight-forward.”

No time of year is this more apparent than Christmas. God is infinite. Man is finite. God is perfect. Man is fallible. God is strong. Man is weak. God is One. Man is many. And yet this week we face an unfathomable mystery: God became man.

Lewis’s 1920 sermon follows the thread of mystery which sheds light even on education. “Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not,” said Jesus, “for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Read or listen to Lewis’s sermon here.

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