Mary the Mother of Jesus

“…but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.” Luke 2:19, NLT Profile from the Illustrated Study Bible Mary, the wife of Joseph, was the virgin mother of Jesus. Luke tells us that as a young […]

The Long Awaited Messiah Slips Into Our World

“At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. And […]