An excerpt from Joseph and Christmas a sermon by Rev. Lewis Kisenwether ©2004

The Christmas story is a salvation story

(Matthew 1: 21) “…he shall save his people from their sins.”

This is God’s breaking news story

For millennia sin had been wrecking lives;

            Murders were happening – sometimes Cain was killing his bro;

            Marriages were failing – committed spouses stopped loving one another, and were throwing over their commitments;

            People were fighting in large numbers about religion, or boundaries, or gold;

            Children were being, neglected, abused, or sold;

            Hearts were hardened against God;

And human life was being disrupted and endangered by these sins and many others.

And God has His angel shout through Joseph’s dream “God is making a way.

The way is the baby.

He will save His people from the sin that doth so easily beset and destroy them.”

When you look in the face of this baby… Joseph, you will see the person who can make people right with God.