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The Gospel of Luke makes remarkable reading. It introduces us to many people the other Gospels don’t mention; it shows the compassion of Jesus in a special way; it is the only Gospel written by a Gentile. Let Gavin Childress guide you through its message in easy stages, and there is plenty to think (and talk) about in the discussion points at the end of each chapter.

Mary and Joseph had to go to what seems to have been a stable (because of the reference to a ‘manger’), possibly constructed from a natural cave. It may have seemed strange to the couple to find the inn closed to them in this way. Angels had spoken of the glorious nature of their child, yet there was no open home in which he could be born. The Lord Jesus had ‘nowhere to lay his head’ during his ministry (Luke 9:58) and so it was at his birth. Midwives emphasize good hygiene whenever a woman gives
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