Phil starts with a question that's bigger than Christmas: Where did any of this come from?

Before discussing Jesus' birth, he points to something every person already shares—we didn't make ourselves, and we didn't make the universe. From there, Matthew's account of Mary, Joseph, and the birth of Jesus becomes part of a larger claim about God's entrance into human history.

If the cosmos demands an explanation, maybe this story deserves one too.

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