My recent ponderings on Christmas
Christmas is soon . Less than one week away, in fact. The story of Jesus' b irth rea lly is remarkable. Think ab out it. The G OD OF THE UNIVERSE sent His son to us in the form of a baby. H e selected Mary and Joseph to b are His son, a poo r, lack-luster cou ple from Nazaret h. H is timing was s uch that Mary gave birth in the shed around back and Jesus' bed was the food-bowl for the nasty, farm animals. Our God certainly is a humble god. I know we all know all th ose de tails of the Christmas story . But they real ly are incredible if you st op to think ab ou t it. But there is another part of the story, sho rtly after the birth , that I think we often forget. As the Magi, or wise men, were tr av eling from the east in pursuit of the Star , King Herod stopped them and told them something along the lines of "Hey, if you find that 'King of the Jews' that you're looking for, come right back here and tell me." Her od knew Jesus was coming. People...