When we think of Christmas, our minds go to a manger in Bethlehem, but the Christmas story actually begins much earlier, in the ashes of paradise lost. In Genesis 3, sin enters the world, and everything God made good is fractured. Humanity’s rebellion brings deep pain, both in creation and in our relationship with God. Yet even in the middle of the pain, God’s grace breaks through in the form of a promise. One day, a child would be born who would crush the serpent and restore what sin destroy...
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