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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

An event is coming on the evening of December 21st that last occurred on March 4, 1226.

According to Rice University astronomer Patrick Hardigan, that was the last time Jupiter and Saturn

were as closely aligned in the night sky, as they will be later this month. In 18 days, the two will appear to us like a double planet,

separated by only one-fifth the diameter of the full moon.

This won't happen again until March 15th, 2080,

and then sometime after the year 2400.

Even though these planets will appear as small dots in our sky,

they are actually huge.

In fact, you could fit 700 Earths inside Saturn.

Jupiter is even larger.

You could fit 1,300 Earths,

or one of each of the planets in our solar system inside it.

Actually, you could not do any of that, of course.

Neither could I.

But the Christ of Christmas could.

The Bible says that by Jesus, all things were created in heaven and on earth.

This, however, is not how most people in our culture picture him. A baby in a manger, a teacher and healer,

even a man dying on a cross or rising from the grave. We see him more as a creature than creator,

one of us rather than king of us. And that's a problem. The Bible calls Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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