People love to hear the familiar Christmas stories during the season of Advent. No matter how creative one might be with different approaches to Christmas preaching, for most it just doesn't seem the same without angels and shepherds and magi, without Mary and Joseph (and even wicked king Herod), and certainly without the child born in the manger This leaves the preacher with four chapters of the scriptures, Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2, as the primary resources for the season. Preaching from these chapters for three years, much less thirty years, is a challenge. We are either left with...