1. “No priest, no theologian stood at the manger of Bethlehem. And yet all Christian theology has its origin in the wonder of all wonders: that God became human. Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth; and we beheld his glory...” John 1:14

2. weight and heaviness Glory means: value and worth “He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him”. Isaiah 53:2

3. weight and heaviness Glory means: value and worth “… may the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.” Ephesians 1:18

4. weight and heaviness Glory means: value and worth brightness and light

5. a faith position “God took human flesh and entered the world in Jesus: We have seen (beheld, took hold of, have come to understand) the weight of this.”

6. a faith position “God took human flesh and entered the world in Jesus: We have seen (beheld, took hold of, have come to understand) the value of Jesus.”

7. a faith position “God took human flesh and entered the world in Jesus: We have seen (beheld, took hold of, have come to understand) the light of hope in Jesus Christ.”

8. “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.” John 17:4 “In Jesus Christ the distant, unknowable, invisible, unreachable God has come to men; and God can never be a stranger to us again.” William Barclay

9. “These have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the anointed One, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.” John 20:31 “This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” John 15:8