Recently I was in a store and the music that was playing in the background for all to hear contained the most amazing (and scandalous?) words: 

Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity
Please as man with men to dwell
Jesus our Emmanuel

I felt like jumping up and down and asking those around me if they heard what was just played! God took on flesh and became one of us! God isn't watching us from a distance, but was pleased to come and dwell among us. They call his name, "God with us!" That's what Christmas is all about!

The Gospel of John opens with similar jaw-dropping statements. In fact, as one modern author paraphrased the gospel writer, "The Word took on flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood." 

Join us this Sunday as we reflect together on the opening words of Jesus' close friend and disciple, John the Apostle, as he stretches language to the breaking point in trying to tell us the Good News about Jesus and why he came for us. 

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