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The Scandal of Christmas

12/17/2018

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     The real Christmas story is even more scandalous than finding an “Eat More Chikin’” cow in my Nativity scene (compliments of my family). In the true story, Mary, a teenager, tells her fiancé she’s pregnant by the Holy Spirit. You expect him to believe that? No way. So being a good Jewish boy, Joseph plans to privately dump her. But in a dream that’s enough to rattle anyone, an angel tells him to marry her. Not an easy start for a couple.     
     Then Mary goes into labor while they’re traveling to a census count. No vacancies, so it’s anguish and afterbirth in a barn, and their newborn lying in a feeding trough. Not the dream of first-time parents.
    
     In a field nearby, celestial warriors rip open the sky and practically scare the tunics off a bunch of shepherds. They hotfoot it over to worship this child who the angels proclaim will be a savior. Then foreign scholars follow a weird star and announce to the local overlord that a baby is destined to become king. Fearing for his position, the overlord goes postal and kills all infants under the age of two - bloody infanticide. But Joseph and Mary escape, so desperate to protect their child they seek refuge in a foreign country.    
    
     No sweet, syrupy story here. Instead, it’s the Supernatural’s gritty entrance onto planet Earth. God sneaks in as a baby to identify with our frailness, then as an adult, he rolls up his sleeves to deal with our brokenness. But that’s another true story - Easter.
    
     To hear a realistic song about Jesus’ birth, click here.

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