AND THE VIRGIN’S NAME WAS MARY (2 OF 5)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 1:26-38
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And the Virgin’s Name Was Mary (2 of 5)
Series: The Christmas Story
Scott Maze
Luke 1: 26-38
Happy Thanksgiving to your family from mine. One of my biggest challenges each year is to preach the Christmas story. Why? It is a challenge because many of you (almost every one of you) have heard this life-changing, earth-shattering story before. When we visit Traci’s grandmother’s home in a little town in Western Kentucky, you will be startled out of deep sleep by a train. The train travels no more than 100 yards from her home. You will jump of your bed. You might ask, “How do you sleep through that?” And she will respond, “Sleep through what?” They are so used to the train traveling by their house, they don’t hear it. And many of you are so used to hearing the Christmas story, you don’t hear it either. So I have my work cut out for me.
Today’s Scripture
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this ...
Series: The Christmas Story
Scott Maze
Luke 1: 26-38
Happy Thanksgiving to your family from mine. One of my biggest challenges each year is to preach the Christmas story. Why? It is a challenge because many of you (almost every one of you) have heard this life-changing, earth-shattering story before. When we visit Traci’s grandmother’s home in a little town in Western Kentucky, you will be startled out of deep sleep by a train. The train travels no more than 100 yards from her home. You will jump of your bed. You might ask, “How do you sleep through that?” And she will respond, “Sleep through what?” They are so used to the train traveling by their house, they don’t hear it. And many of you are so used to hearing the Christmas story, you don’t hear it either. So I have my work cut out for me.
Today’s Scripture
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this ...
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