This is the ninth lesson and we take a little turn as we look as a different Gospel.

A Story of Life

            The Christmas story had either become so old to us we no longer see it or it gets all mixed up with Santa and Frosty.  But think about the very real people involved in the birth of Jesus.  Do you realize that the meaning of Christmas is Christ Mass or the Christ came in the flesh?  Can you wrap your mind around the fact the God came as a human being?  That the Creator entered into His creation to redeem and fix His creation.  And that includes you!

Read Luke 1:26-38

Have you heard this story before?

Who is Mary?

Who is the baby?

What does it mean to be the handmaid of the Lord?

What would have happened to Mary as an unwed mother in the time of Jesus?  What about today?

How would you respond to such a call from God?

What does it mean that the Son of God and the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was an illegitimate Child? Why would the Bible include that?