The Christmas story is hard for some to fathom.

And it was no different 2000 years ago.

Mark 6 he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. 3 “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

All of us must decide if this is an ancient story or the very thing that we need … Our only hope.

To me, Jesus is Our Only Hope.

It was hard to fathom when He told me to pull off at the exit as I was driving to California … but when I met the man with no legs trying to change his tire —- I understood.

It was hard to fathom when He told my wife and I NOT TO DECLARE BANKRUPCY IN 2008, but when we came to the other side many years later—- I understood.

It was hard to fathom when He told me to speak at my father’s funeral in 2010.  But when He used that very action to heal me —- I understood.

I think Einstein must have struggled with this also.  When he said:  “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  He, too, had to have been thinking about the divine, the miraculous.

So what do you think?

Read before and beyond this Mark 6 verse.

Ask God to convict you.  To show you.

The reason that they asked is the very reason that you should.

When this Christianity became a thing 2000 years ago it was just that …

The men and women who knew Him, and walked with Him, and watched Him preach, and saw Him do miracles, and watched Him rise from the dead …

They Became The Champions Of A New Faith

It Became Their Single Minded View

Their New Hope

And It Was Based On That Question:

Isn’t He This The Carpenter?

YES.  YES.  THIS Is The Carpenter.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J