Part 2: Christmas Day – The Birth That Changed Everything
Posted By RichC on December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas! Our Christmas Eve was quiet as Brenda and I are waiting to celebrate with our family this weekend — family rotations and all (but those are good memories in thinking about our 43 years 
of ‘back and forth’ with our parents and extended family).
Picking up from yesterday’s thought on the journey: That baby born in Bethlehem wasn’t just any child. Luke’s details make it clear this happened in real history, centered on the One in Mary’s womb — the promised descendant of David, whose reign would eclipse even King David’s triumphs. It wasn’t just “historicity” … it was and “is” HIStory.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
– Isaiah 9:6
The Truth For Life devotional I mentioned yesterday put it well: Jesus’ story doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s tied to real time, real places, real rulers. And that historicity carried through—Josephus in AD 93 noting how Jesus’ followers proclaimed His life, death, and resurrection. These weren’t Christian sources trying to sell something; they were neutral or even hostile historians confirming the events.
If by chance you are reading this, think of it as an invitation to step into the light of verifiable truth: God entering human history in the flesh, born that night in Bethlehem. Certainty about those events in a Roman-occupied Judea, under Caesar’s census gives real hope, peace, joy and purpose to a fact that has been celebrated by millions for 2000 years. Give this invitation a chance to learn who this “Jesus in a manger” is, and what a personal relationship with Him can make on your life today, and for eternity.
Wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas filled with that same certainty and joy.
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