Today’s post is a guest post by Angela. You can look forward to seeing a post from her once a month.
Our church is doing a bible reading plan and one day we were reading Luke 2. The Christmas story. I have read this passage countless times- almost exclusively in December. But this time a rather odd passage stuck out to me. Verses 21-24 say, “Eight days later, when the baby was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel even before he was conceived. Then it was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child; so his parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. The law of the Lord says, “If a woman’s first child is a boy, he must be dedicated to the Lord.” So they offered the sacrifice required in the law of the Lord— either a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.” [Read more…] about These Are Not My Children
