Total upheaval. This census that the Romans were doing had resulted in complete upheaval everyone’s life. Read Luke 2:3. And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. Luke 2:3 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.2.3.NASB Everyone was on the move. The streets would have been unusually busy. Hotels and those in the hospitality business would have had no lack of customers during this time. Everywhere you turn there would be someone new, different, out of place. And the answer behind all of this? The Roman census. Sometimes God takes everything in our lives and turns it upside down and makes it chaotic and crazy, right before…

The Christmas story. Over the next 15 days leading up to Christmas, we’re going to look through one of the most important and amazing stories the Bible records. As we study the birth of Jesus, allow this to be a time of preparation for your hearts as we all seek to understand and remember the reason for the season. Read Luke 2:1-2. Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. Luke 2:1‭-‬2 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.2.1-2.NASB A census. This story here and now begins with a census…