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"Unfortunately my lunch break is over
:)"
You're amazing, Jonathan. You do on lunch break what takes me a snow
day to consider.
Judy asked, Why is it important?
For this reason we also ... do not cease to pray for you, and to
ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding; ... giving thanks to the Father who ... has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of
the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven
and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for
Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And
He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it
pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him
to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things
in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. -- (See Col
1.9-20)
jt: Thanks for your response Bill - My next question is.
Why focus on the 'incarnation' when scripturally focus is on the
cross? We are baptized into His death, and not on His birth. Notice the
scripture above "having made peace through the blood of His
Cross" judyt
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