The Gospel According to Yeeks

This Christmas, I am ever so grateful that my hope rests not in my own ability to fight sin but in a Saviour who was born this very day in a very lowly manger and who will one day be put up on the Cross to redeem all. I have never thought much about the phrase "in sin and error pinning". The word "pinning" is derived from pin. Sin and error is pinned and fastened onto us so wretchedly. But in our weariness there lies our thrill of hope in the manger. Indeed we rejoice at this. The significance of this should never pass us by. Should never leave us unimpressed. God help us all.

What Leah wanted - Jacob's love When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon. Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi. And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” (Genesis 29:31-35) What Rachel wanted - Leah's children When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you

“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?" (Jeremiah 7:8-10)

"Well, I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian." (Christopher Hitchens, 2009) Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-stevens/the-gospel-according-to-christopher_b_2231094.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false