Stephen Nichols

Well, here's today's episode.

For some, you know, they can articulate that Jesus is the God-man.

But once you try to get into how those two natures combine, some Christians, I think, can feel this might be a little out of my depth.

And so they don't venture too far into Christology.

And I want to encourage people to definitely go out into the deep end of Christology.

You know, read the Nicene Creed.

Read the Chalcedonian Creed.

Go back then.

to Paul's teaching on who Jesus is in his epistles, go back to putting together that composite as we see Jesus in the gospels and have this rich, truly rich understanding of Jesus as the God-man.

And as we think on that, and as we meditate on that, now we marvel at who Christ is and what he has done.

Hmm.

Nathan, you know, at Christmas time, everybody likes to read the traditional texts and different traditions.

We'll read Luke 2 or some of the other gospel texts.

And we did that in our family.

But one Christmas, I remember thinking, you know, what if we expanded this a little bit and expanded?

Start thinking about how we could pull in some Old Testament texts that prophesy of the incarnation, prophesy of the coming of Christ.

Then move to the Gospels and even add some texts from the epistles that just pull it all together.

And so I actually began writing out these biblical texts that I wanted to include.

And then I started to think, well, there's sort of a story that can be told here to walk somebody through not just this moment of Christmas morning, which is this miracle of the virgin birth and just this wonderful moment in the history of redemption, but to really capture what is the whole story of Christmas, of the Old Testament promises, of Jesus's fulfillment in his earthly life and ministry.

And then as he is resurrected and in his ascended state, the epistles reflection.