Prelate’s Apartment

Rev. Terry L. Plemons Grand Prelate of the Grand Encampment

Merry Christmas!

Glory to God in the Highest, peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Christ the Savior is born. He is Wonderful, Councilor, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father, our Redeemer, our Savior, our King who is returning to reign on Earth with the redeemed of all ages. To Him be all glory and honor and power.

John tells us, “the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.”

This Christmas season, as we sing carols about shepherds keeping watch in the field; angels appearing, declaring the glory of God; wise men bearing gifts; our trees will be decorated, gifts exchanged, for a brief moment the world will seem a little brighter. Keep the Christ child at the center; the purpose of His coming foremost.

Philippians is generally not one of the Christmas passages we read, but for me it expresses the fullness of the birth of Christ. It reminds me of the importance of a servant’s heart – the importance of humility, our obedience in Christ, exalting His name above all creation, giving all glory to God.

Philippians 2: 5-11: form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 1 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

In Christ's Love,

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human Terry Plemons Grand Prelate