Isaiah 40:28-31

Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.

1 Timothy 3:1-7

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

Men,

We are all called to be leaders—in our families, our vocations, and in our Churches.

Even if we are not called to serve the body of Christ in an official capacity, we ought to hold ourselves to the qualifications of overseers and deacons. If we sincerely believe there is a priesthood of all believers, we should embody that priesthood in whatever capacity we are called to lead.

Can you (like the Apostle Paul) instruct those around you to “imitate me”? Are you dignified, faithful, and above reproach? Do you teach those in your charge the things of God, both by word and deed?

This is my resolution for the year of our Lord 2025. I pray that men everywhere will make it theirs as well.

—Adam

He was poor, that he might make us rich.

He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God.

He took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit.

He lay in the manger, that we may lie in paradise.

He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven. . . .

That the ancient of Days should be born.

that he who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle. . . .

that he who rules the stars should suck the breast;

that a virgin should conceive;

that Christ should be made of a woman, and of that woman which himself made,

that the branch should bear the vine,

that the mother should be younger than the child she bare,

and the child in the womb bigger than the mother;

that the human nature should not be God, yet one with God.

Come and worship!

—Thomas Watson

Revelation 12:5

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

As Christmas approaches, let us not only focus on the peaceful, serene night of the Savior’s birth.

Do not forget that although the Lord was incarnate as a babe, His coming represents the first shots fired in the Great War for dominion over this world; what was lost to Satan in Adam is being retaken by Christ. His cries—the war cries of a conquering King.

Rejoice! Heaven has invaded Earth, and the Commander of the Heavenly Host has cast Satan out. Christ is come. Christ has won.

Christus Victor. Christus Rex.

Hebrews 10:23-25

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.