12/09/2025
As we enter this Christmas season, we want to invite you to slow down and reflect with us. Throughout Advent, we’ll be tracing the movements of God—from the very beginning of Scripture to the birth of Christ.
We begin with Adam, the first man and the first to enter into covenant with God.
Genesis 1:27 states, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Adam was not only the first man but also the first in a long line of image bearers, uniquely gifted with the mark of their Creator.
From the beginning, God’s intention was to blend His image with His essence. Thousands of years later, a new Adam was born—one who came to redeem what the first Adam had broken. As 1 Corinthians 15:45 declares, “The first man, Adam, became a living person. But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.”
This new—and last—Adam is what we celebrate this Christmas. And it is in His image that we have been remade. “Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven]” (1 Corinthians 15:49).
