The entire staff of FaithSearch International wish you a blessed Christmas season. We are offering this special, expanded edition of Paraclete, filled with Christmas Bible truth and devotional thought, as a reminder and encouragment to keep the Christ child as the focus of your celebration. Use these resources for your own spiritual growth and share them with your family and friends at holiday gatherings.
Archives for December 2020
JESUS: The Lion and the Lamb
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
In the creative series, The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis portrayed a lion (Aslan) who in love gives his life as an atoning death on a stone table, and then in resurrection power conquers evil and its consequences forever. Everyone acquainted with this series knows that you can’t help but love the peaceful, sensitive, patient, all-knowing, righteous, and victorious lion.
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Questions We Wonder about Christmas
You may have wondered about these things. You may even be asked about them. We were wondering…
1. Where did the word “Christmas” come from, and what does it mean?
The end of the word (“mass”) in English is “missa”in Latin, a form of the verb “mittere” which means “to send.” Thus Christmas is literally “Christ is sent” or “the sending of Christ”
JESUS: The Shepherd and Lamb
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Only in fiction can one imagine a lamb becoming a shepherd! That would be quite a role reversal. Yet there in the book of Revelation, with the prophecy of the “great multitude which no one could count” worshiping before the throne of God, we are told that “the Lamb in the center of the throne shall be their shepherd” (Revelation 7:17a).
How well do you know what the Bible says about Christmas?
Take this Christmas IQ quiz and you may be surprised! Remember, it’s only what the Bible says. After you choose your answers, get your Bible and look up the passages provided.
1. Joseph and Mary were from:
a) Bethlehem b) Jerusalem c) Nazareth
d) Egypt e) Minnesota f) none of the above. [Luke 2:4, 39; 4:16][Read more…]
