The First Christmas (As Told by the FSB)
The First Christmas (As Told by the FSB) December 24, 2013 By Ray Deck III | Leave a Comment 0 Each Christmas, we celebrate Jesus’ birth and retell his origin story. But it’s hard to celebrate Christmas without also thinking about the reasons for Jesus’ birth and the world-changing events of his lifetime. As Bob Coy explains in his devotional on Jesus’ humanity : “The humanity of Jesus made Him completely relatable. None of us can accuse the Lord of not understanding what it is like to be human. From conception to resurrection, there is no phase of our existence that Jesus has not already walked through. He understood firsthand what it was like to get hungry, get sick, get betrayed, get tired, and get stung. He experienced the blistering heat of the day and the persistent chill of the night. Jesus knew what it felt like to experience all that is part of the human experience on earth. Christ’s ability to completel...