Astronomer's Gospel

Merry Christmas from ICC! Erik preached on John 1, where the evangelist tells the Christmas story though a kind of metaphysical poetry. Here is Erik’s conclusion:

In Revelation, John describes Jesus as the bright morning star that will eventually shine so brightly that the sun and the moon will become invisible. But until then, there is a strange sense in which we need darkness the same way astronomers and navigators do. The darker things are, the easier it is to see the light incarnate in Jesus’s life, and to see it for what it is: our salvation. Christmas is an acknowledgment is Christ’s life finds us less like sunlight than starlight: it doesn’t arrive as a light that dispels the dark, but rather a light that leads us through the dark. Yet God’s promise to us is that death has no more power to extinguish that life than all the darkness in the universe has to extinguish the light of a single star. The first axiom of divine physics: a light shines out of the darkness and the darkness has not, will not, cannot overcome it. Has not, will not, cannot.