How will you celebrate Christmas? Will it be different this year? For many, Christmas will come with presents and parties. It will come with Santa sightings and carols for others. It will bring families together for feasts to enjoy good food. But for others, it will just come and go. It will have little more appeal than any other day. But for about a fifth of the globe, it will be a considerable day worth celebrating. Almost two billion people on the planet will gather to celebrate the Christmas story in churches around the world with utmost reverence. Have you heard the story? Christmas is the story of God's birth into our world.

It is a story of darkness with angelic appearances. It includes an oppressive government, a genocide, a pilgrimage, and a perceived sexual infidelity. It is a story where the highest and most prestigious of society meet the lowest and most humble of class. Christmas is the story of meeting. It is the great meeting of God and man. It is the period in history where Divinity intersected with our humanity. In 0 AD God interrupted human history as we know it, and since then He has intersected with many more. He might very well meet with you this Christmas too.