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Come Join us Christmas Eve for A Service of Lessons & Carols: 7pm

Christmas art depicts Jesus' family as icons stamped in gold foil, with a calm Mary receiving the tidings of the Annunciation as a kind of benediction.

But that is not at all how Luke tells the story. Mary was "greatly troubled" and "afraid" at the angel's appearance, and when the angel pronounced the sublime words about the Son of the Most High whose kingdom will never end, Mary had something far more mundane on her mind: But I'm a virgin!

Nine months of awkward explanations, the lingering scent of scandal.… It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for his entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

— Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew