Jesus's birth

Christmas Day ~ Reading Luke 2

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Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus is read often at Christmas. We don’t read Matthew’s narrative, as it is rather short, “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King…” Informative but lacking descriptive depth. Christmas specials need more than a few words to describe the birth […]

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Christmas Eve: One Solitary Life

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In the mid-1970s my wife’s grandmother took us to a showing of Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular in Manhattan. It was spectacular. Music, drama, and the Rockettes. I was surprised at the ending as a manger scene appeared on stage with the narration of the poem One Solitary Life. One Solitary Life was written

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