We are to birth Christ

After Zechariah described the many promises of God for his people, led by the Spirit of God, Zechariah spoke directly to and about his son John: “You, my child, shall be called prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way.”

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Spiritually pregnant

For sure, the Bible is filled with awesome and bigger-than-life stories, this one included. Certainly the Bible leads us at times to such a great mystery too wonderful, amazing or awesome to behold.

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God is with us!

The story of the promise to be fulfilled as the word is spoken into a birthed human, and in the most dramatic way possible, God becomes hu-man (and therefore, also hu-woman).

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It begins

We are not quite through with the third week of Advent and we begin to taste the genealogy, the passing on of the heritage to the generations to come, the fulfillment through the line of David, the imminent coming of the Lord the Messiah.

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