(Image via Wikipedia) Merry Christmas to you and yours and may God truly bless you this Day. The Real Christmas Story When our children were growing up it was a family tradition to read about the ‘real’ Christmas story in the Bible on Christmas Eve. You’ve probably seen a dozen or so ‘Christmas stories’ […]

                                                                                          (Image via Wikipedia) Merry Christmas to you and yours and may God truly bless you this Christmas Day. The Real Christmas Story When our children were growing up it was a family tradition to read about the ‘real’ Christmas story in the Bible on Christmas Eve. You’ve probably seen a dozen or so ‘Christmas […]

(Image via Wikipedia) Merry Christmas to you and yours and may God truly bless you this Christmas Day. The Real Christmas Story When our children were growing our family had a Christmas Eve tradition to read about the ‘real’ Christmas story in the Bible. You’ve probably seen a dozen or so ‘Christmas stories’ on TV […]

                                                    (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Was Jesus really Born On December 25? No, but so what! This is a question that I have been asked many times over the years but lately most folks are aware that it is almost certain that the Jesus was not born on that date. Now all sorts of people have […]

                           (Birth of Jesus Matthew 2:1: Wikipedia) Every Christmas Eve when we traditionally read the Christmas story in the Bible to our children (and now our grandchildren) the genealogies are usually avoided or quickly glossed over since they seem to get in the way of the ‘real’ story. However the genealogies in Matthew (1:1-17) and […]