O Come Let Us Adore Him – Bethel – YouTube
Billy Graham’s Greatest Sermon – “Who is Jesus?” – YouTube
O Come Let Us Adore Him (Lyrics) ~ Amanda Cook (Bethel Worship) – YouTube
Glory to the Newborn King (Lyric Video) | Christmas Is Real – YouTube
Wycliffe Associates – Accelerating Bible Translation
Were there more than Three Kings? – BBC News
Among the surviving Syriac people of south-eastern Turkey, Jeremy Bristow hears that there may have been as many as 12.
The Redemption of MS-13–Long Reads
Danny Gold in
vestigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians.
Source: The Redemption of MS-13
Is The Resurrection Unnecessary? | Keith Giles
“If the only way we know Jesus is by reading about him in the Bible, then the Resurrection is unnecessary.” – Gabriel Gordon I had the most […]
The Birth of Jesus
Matthew 1–The Message
18-19 The birth of Jesus took place like this. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. Before they came to the marriage bed, Joseph discovered she was pregnant. (It was by the Holy Spirit, but he didn’t know that.) Joseph, chagrined but noble, determined to take care of things quietly so Mary would not be disgraced.
20-23 While he was trying to figure a way out, he had a dream. God’s angel spoke in the dream: “Joseph, son of David, don’t hesitate to get married. Mary’s pregnancy is Spirit-conceived. God’s Holy Spirit has made her pregnant. She will bring a son to birth, and when she does, you, Joseph, will name him Jesus—‘God saves’—because he will save his people from their sins.” This would bring the prophet’s embryonic sermon to full term:
24-25 Then Joseph woke up. He did exactly what God’s angel commanded in the dream: He married Mary. But he did not consummate the marriage until she had the baby. He named the baby Jesus.
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