Emphasis Preaching Journal

All three lessons appointed for celebrating The Nativity of Our Lord have at their heart a resounding acclamation of grace. In Isaiah's poem we hear that, through a child, God will bring about the fulfillment of promises so glorious that their accomplishment in our lives will seem like the difference between night and day. In the epistle to Titus, we hear that God's grace has appeared in Jesus Christ and that the blessed hope we have in him will be augmented by still further manifestations of grace in the future.