The Perfect Timing of God (Luke 2:1-20)
About this episode
The episode discusses the significance of God's timing in the Christmas story as presented in Luke 2:1-20.
Share a comment Caesar Augustus stamped his own greatness onto coins and called himself a “son of a god.” Luke opens the Christmas story by challenging that whole way of seeing the world, as if to say: if you think the center of history is Rome, you’re looking in the wrong place. The real turning point is happening in Nazareth and then in Bethlehem, where God quietly moves events so a centuries-old prophecy from Micah lands with stunning accuracy. We walk through how an empire-wide census, d...
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