And Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast where we take a little bit of time every weekday morning to process through a book of the Bible.

In this case we're working on the book of Matthew.

And as we get rolling here, this is a quick aside that I think is pretty awesome.

This episode is actually sponsored by a new partner called Dwell. They've got an audio Bible

app that is the best I've ever heard. Tell you more about that later. One of the things that we do here

is have a discussion that's always running over on

Reddit.com. If you're not familiar with Reddit it's a place where people talk

about things and post things and it's a very very very big diverse community

with a whole bunch of different ideas and stuff going on.

We have one little tiny corner of Reddit carved out that is R slash TMBH

podcast. But there's one really great question that came in from the lump peanut and the question is,

hey Matt, why are we talking about Mary more?

And we're talking about this whole birth narrative and Mary's awesome and she goes on to make this great case for

how awesome Mary is and every single thing she says is right so obviously that's a

really fair question and it kind of lobes me a softball for what I wanted to

talk about anyway which is why does Mary show up so much of is actually very, very simple. In the Gospel of Luke, Mary is the point of view

character for Jesus' birth narrative. Luke 126 says in the sixth month God

sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth a town in Galilee to a virgin

pledged to be married to a man named Joseph a descendant of David. The virgin's

name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, Greetings you who are highly

favored the Lord is with you. And then Mary's troubled at these words and they have the conversation and then Mary

bursts forth with this amazing song my soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he's been mindful of the

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