Every December, I feel the tension that many believers experience. We enter a season that should draw our hearts to Christ, yet our schedules fill, distractions multiply, and before we know it, Christmas arrives, and we have barely made room to meditate on the very truth that changed the world.

Through the cross, Jesus became our propitiation—bearing the full wrath of God so that we might be reconciled to Him. His blood satisfied divine justice, turned aside God’s holy anger, and made peace between sinners and a holy God. This is the heart of the gospel.