We all have birth stories.  Did your mom or dad tell you yours?  We repeat them over and over as we remember.  We show baby pictures and put them on the wall.

No birth story outdoes the one of the Messiah.  It was planned from eternity and was so miraculous it would be hard to believe.  Each step towards that fateful day was planned in advance… in a way that was hard to see and was unpredictable to all but God.

We read of the birth stories of John and Jesus.  The Bible says Jesus came to give us second-birth—to be born of water and spirit.   Are you born a second time?  Do you have a spirit-birth story to tell?

Scriptures:  Luke 1:5-25;  Matthew 3:3-15; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 1:39-45; Luke 2:25-38;  John 3:5-8

Preacher:  Pastor Mark

John 3:5-8   “Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.