O Holy Night

In this Christmas sermon, we explore the profound reality of the Incarnation: God Himself entering human history. In other words, the Holy One became truly human. Far from a borrowed pagan holiday or mere sentimental tradition, December 25 marks our celebration of the eternal God becoming finite, not in the myth but in fact. Holidays are simple holy-days; whatever days we demarcate as holy define what we value and how we interpret history.

Luke presents this as holy time, when God's sovereign plan converged in the fullness of history, moving even Caesar Augustus to unwittingly bring Mary to Bethlehem. It was a holy night, as the glory of the Lord terrified shepherds before announcing the birth of the Savior, Christ the Lord, humbly laid in a feed trough. And ultimately, it brings peace with a holy God—not the forced pax Romana of empires, but true reconciliation through the blood of the cross, where alienated sinners are made holy and blameless before Him.