The Word Made Flesh
The Gospels address Jesus’s birth in three ways: Matthew and Luke give accounts of his birth and genealogy which are distinct but together form the picture we have of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the angels, the shepherds and the wise men. Mark doesn’t touch on it at all. John puts it in context with everything.
When I say everything, I mean everything. We have a rather unfortunate false narrative in our culture that tries to cast an impassable divide with faith on one side and reason on the other, or faith and spirituality on one side and science on the other. Some religious people deny science. Many scientists deny the existence of God.
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The Word Lived
“You brood of vipers!” That’s a bit rude to say to people who have taken time out of their lives to come and hear what you have to say! Maybe it helps us to think of this like a tent revival. Who comes to a tent revival? People who know things are very wrong, people who are prepared or predisposed to owning their sin and wanting to make things better.
A “brood of vipers” convicts everyone as a group and individually. Vipers remind us of that snake in the garden. Sin is like poison. Vipers carry poison inside them and spread it when they bite – just like we all carry sin and it is poisonous when we bite.
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