This Christmas Eve, let’s step into the story of Jesus’ birth as told by the author of the Gospel of Luke. It is only in Luke’s narrative of the Nativity that we encounter the shepherds ...

The gospel begins with the joyous account of Jesus' birth and ends on the victorious note of Jesus' resurrection and ascension into heaven. The sense of abandonment that characterizes Mark's ...

Luke's Gospel indicates that John's mother, Elizabeth, conceived six months before Mary. By tracing the priestly rotation of Zechariah, John's father, scholars estimate Jesus' birth occurred in ...

Is it because the historical Jesus, the Savior of humankind, is born? Gospel narratives of the birth of Jesus That Christmas is associated with the debates regarding the historical Jesus is always ...

which he says “raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape.” ...

So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus, and two don’t mention it. The Gospel of Mark has people of Galilee referring to Jesus as the son ...

At Christmas, we heard a sermon on one of the narratives about Jesus' birth, and during Holy Week ... Justification was the lens for the gospel, and "life in the Spirit," the lens for Christian ...

As a careful historian, Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4). Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of ...