1. Christianity doesn’t start with our speculation about God. It starts with God’s self-revelation.
  2. Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
  3. Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
  4. This ancient “tale of two mothers” concerns far more than theological semantics—it is the difference between a God who sends and a God who comes.
  5. This story points us from our unlikely heroes to the even more unlikely, and joyous, good news that Jesus’ birth for us was just as unlikely and unexpected.

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