Most everyone knows something about the main characters in the Christmas story — Mary, Joseph, and of course, the baby Jesus. On Sundays, December 4 and 11 at 11:15 a.m. in Wright Chapel, LPC Pastor Jim Butler will help us explore the lives and thoughts of the other figures sprinkled across the two Christmas stories in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Come and consider Gabriel, the “Archangel.” What is all this business about angels and archangels? And then there is Zachariah the Priest and his wife, Elizabeth, who welcomed a very pregnant Mary into their home while they were waiting for their own miracle baby, who grew up to be John the baptizer/prophet. Three political figures step onto the stage and one doesn’t go away until after he’s killed hundreds of young boys in his maniacal pursuit of Mary and Joseph’s son. And finally, two senior citizens make their Christmas stage debut when the infant Jesus was “presented” to the Lord in the Jerusalem Temple. Come get some fresh perspectives on this familiar annual drama that turned the world upside down.
