Happy Incarnation Day! (The Real Reason for the Season)

From the Douglass Family.

To me Christmas is a celebration of the Incarnation as described in
Matthew 1:18-25 New American Standard Bible 1995, a gift of God, of His Son Jesus to live among us, to eventually suffer and die on the Cross, for my and others sins, be buried, and then rise again on the Third Day, to new life.….. Resurrection Day! (not Easter (a syncristic twisting of Eostre, a pagan festival)

Conception and Birth of Jesus

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. 20 But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, f…