The incarnation has not only been a stumbling block for skeptics but a mystery for Christians. Whatever one's response, however, it stands at the center of Christian faith declaring that Jesus, the Son of God, has come down to earth in order to lift earth to heaven!

Biblical genealogies are typically the stuff of yawns and bewilderment. But when it comes to Jesus' genealogy, there's more than first meets the eye. 

It was hard to imagine great things coming from Jacob's son, Judah. God's grace and power, however, was shown in appointing him the ancestor the great Lion of Israel.