Mary, the Mother of God?

In Luke 1:43, in her hymn of praise, Elizabeth says of Mary, “And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?” She was astounded that the one who was the mother of her Messiah (her declaration emulates David in Ps. 110:1) would visit her. She is humbling […]

This is the way the Lord deals with His own

It’s possible to read the story of Zacharias and Elizabeth in Luke 1 and think, “that’s a blessed family.” But that’s like reading the last chapter of a book first, finding the happy ending and assuming that the participants of the story knew the end of the story while all the hard stuff was happening, […]