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The mind-boggling truth of Christmas is this: Jesus is not God ‘up there’. He's God down here. God with us. God among us.

The Christmas story is one of gritty reality. Yet this is where our hope lies.

Stef preaches about Mary's obedience to God.

This is a difficult story. The point that Matthew is trying to make throughout this passage is that God is working his purpose out in the midst of a world that is dead set against him and his plans.

Let's take a moment to consider the faithfulness of Joseph. Joseph had a dream, awoke in the morning and did what he had to do.

The miracle of the manger is that God became flesh and lived among us. He came not so He could send us to eternal punishment but to set us free. God became man so that we could become children of God.

God's methods haven't changed. He still uses ordinary people to accomplish His extraordinary work! Our abilities are not as important as our attitude and availability.

The miracle of the message is not just in the fact that God speaks to us today through His Son, but that the message has the power to transform our lives.

At just the right time in history Jesus was born. The coming of Christ into the world was not a matter of chance or coincidence. His coming was part of God's divine plan established before the foundation of the world.