FRIENDSHIP

"In your life you should always have some people whom you nourish & who return little or nothing to you. You should also have people who nourish you, but you may return nothing to them. A third kind of relationship is equal sharing. This is friendship."  Jim Conway, Men's Devotional Bible 

THE CHRIST ON THE CROSS

"The odds against the Babe in the manger & the Christ on the cross were enormous, even absolute to any betting man. But there was something more than meets the eye. As Luther put it, if it were a mere man in the balance, over against the sin of the world, we'd be lost. But on the scale, over against our ins, is God in the flesh, & it's not even close. 'The 'power' of sin? The 'power' of the devil? The 'power' of the flesh.' 'Their might? A joke, a mere facade! God is with us & we with God--our vict'ry cannot fail!'"  Pastor Matthew Harrison, President, LCMS, The Lutheran Witness, Dec. 2020