A Son Is Given

As we approach the Christmas holidays, let's learn how to unwrap "the Christmas present."
In the message from this text last Sunday, we asked, “Who will end the violence?”
This came to our minds once again this week when a Muslim couple savagely
murdered 14 people in San Bernardino, California. This may be part of a larger
“deep terror matrix” or network. The family members of the assassins seem as
shocked and bewildered as the rest of us. You look forward to the upcoming
holidays; they think about the horrors that haunt the families of the dead and
injured. How can there be a peaceful resolution to all of these hostilities?

Missionary Don Richardson was shocked by the jubilant reactions of the
headhunters in the Kamoor village of the Sawi tribe in Irian Jaya. As he shared the
good news of Jesus Christ with them, they expressed joyous reverence – for Judas!. . .