Martin Luther's Christmas sermon, 1522


	Martin Luther's Christmas sermon, 1522

enbar

12-26-2007 10:27 PM

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enbar says:

The great Reformer on the meaning of Christmas. This is only a tiny snippet; the original is very wide-ranging and covers a lot of ground. The source is worth reading.

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  faith and love. There are many who are enkindled with dreamy
  devotion, when they hear of such poverty of Christ, are almost
  angry with the citizens of Bethlehem, denounce their blindness
  and ingratitude, and think, if they had been there, they would
  have shown the Lord and his mother a more becoming service, and
  would not have permitted them to be treated so miserably. But
  they do not look by their side to see how many of their fellow
  men need their help, and which they let go on in their misery
  unaided. Who is there upon earth that has no poor, miserable,
  sick, erring ones, or sinful people around him? Why does he not
  exercise his love to those? Why does he not do to them as Christ
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