References: Luke 1

When I was a boy growing up in New York eloquent preachers stressed that the Virgin Birth expressed the poetry of love, hope, and joy, but it was hardly to be taken as an actual visitation by the living God who kept His promise to His people and sent His Son to fulfill the promises to Abraham, to David, and to us. Many of these learned, liberal theologians stressed that they believed in the resurrection but not the Virgin Birth. I have never seen the logic of accepting the resurrection and not the Virgin Birth, and for me there is nothing more reassuring than to continually go back to the primary sources and read the accounts for myself. Christmas is the perfect time to take another look at what is called The Annunciation in Luke 1:26ff.