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Word Made Flesh

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https://soundcloud.com/david-hosey-1/word-made-flesh   ---> Listen here! The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. - John 1: 9-14 (NRSV) This week’s passage from John’s Gospel is all about the body – specifically, Christ slipping into a human body to become the person we know as Jesus. If the prospect of God taking on flesh sounds bizarre to you, it’s because it is. Theologians call this unique part of the Christian story “the mystery of the incarnation,” b