The Nativity Story in Chronological Order

My single friends, Merry Christmas! I hope you have been enjoying the holidays. Please enjoy your day today, wherever you are, whoever you are with. My gift to you today is the nativity story directly from scripture, in chronological order. Today’s scripture reading is from The Passion Version, taken from BibleGateway.com, but with footnotes removed…

One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village as the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty and then for three years was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He…