Lighting Candles in the Darkness (Week 1)

We are 2000+ years removed from the time of Jesus’ birth. In succumbing to sentimentality and nostalgia, we miss the difficult and perilous time that Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary and Joseph and all of the Jews in Roman Palestine lived through. The idea of God’s chosen on a Davidic throne was six centuries, three national defeats and one exile in t...