Two Like Three?

"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."   (Genesis 1:26, NASB)

A first-time reading (or hearing) of this narrative can easily give one pause, and perhaps prompt the unsettling thought– "Did I read that right?

Two Cries

Two profound "cries" stand as boundary stones of the Incarnation– the cry of the Child as He entered this cold, rough world of pain and drew His first breath, and the cry of the Man as He suffered the pain of torture and experienced death for the punishment of this world's sin.