Daily Archives: January 26, 2014

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Thought for the Lord’s Day

Why Christ came to earth, in his own words   Luke’s Gospel, written to gentiles, tells us why Jesus came to earth. His words are a mixture of joy and fear. Joy, because Jesus is my only hope. Fear, because Jesus describes exactly who I am without his mercy.    If you do not think of yourself as a poor, blind slave apart from the grace of Christ, you think too much of yourself and too little of Christ.    In the passage below Christ tells us why he came. Praise God for his glorious grace!   He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his […]