Published December 26, 2024
Gratitude is one of the hallmarks of genuine Christian faith. Christians are those who give joyful thanks for the gospel—those actions of God that serve to bring a people called by His name into communion with Himself.
The Fall shattered everything, driving men and women out of the light of God’s presence and into a darkness of their own making. The Son, through the Spirit, brings those who dwell in this everlasting night back into that glorious relationship with the Father that was their original destiny. And for that greatest of truths, we should rightly thank God every day. But perhaps we might, especially at Christmas, as we contemplate that moment when the time had fully come, when God Himself became flesh, when the light once again shone into the darkness, and the greatest story ever told entered its most beautiful and dramatic phase. It is a time for rejoicing. It is a time for Christian contemplation. We should take the opportunity it provides to allow our hearts to be filled with great thoughts of the Word made flesh.
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Carl R. Trueman is a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping civic leaders and policy makers better understand the deep roots of our current cultural malaise. In addition to his scholarship on the intellectual foundations of expressive individualism and the sexual revolution, Trueman is also interested in the origins, rise, and current use of critical theory by progressives. He serves as a professor at Grove City College.
