Looking at the Christmas Story Through The Eyes of The Authors

I live in a Canada, far enough North that Christmas is almost always white. I can remember once when we got our first snow Christmas Eve, but that’s a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. We normally have snow that sticks around by the end of October. But God bless El Nino – this year we haven’t seen much of the white stuff.

So it’s been a little hard to get into the Christmas mood. Tonight as I write this, we’re setting up the Christmas tree and listening to Christmas music, and it’s starting to feel a bit more like Christmas… which reminds me I have a lot of Christmas shopping to do… maybe it’s a bad time to switch servers for my websites.

Oh well, it’s time to think about the Christmas story.

The Christmas Story comes down to us from antiquity from two main sources. I’m not counting the Armenian Infancy Gospels or the more modern Saint Nicholas folklore.

The Story of Jesus coming to earth as a baby are delivered to us by primarily two of the gospel writers – Matthew and Luke. They give the details. They highlight the fulfilled prophecy. They place the event in world and Jewish history. But the other two Gospels tell us a lot more His arrival and purpose than we might otherwise pick up on in either of the main historical accounts.

The beauty of historical accounts show us the authors main focus and main purpose and taking a few posts to look at how each Gospel writer handles the coming of Jesus as a baby reveals their message to their first readers and to us today.

So I’ll be posting my thoughts on the Christmas story according to each gospel writer over the next few days. I’ll be telling you my favorite. I hope you can tell me yours – comment on my site liberally.

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