2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

We gazed up at the moon for thousands of years, even worshipped it,

and then, in in 1969 a man actually walked on it, and the more I think about that,

the more unlikely it seems. I helped to make a short documentary about it and we interviewed an aerospace

engineer and a retired pilot and what became very apparent was the sheer logistical

improbability of the whole thing.

You can understand why some conspiracy theorists think it never happened.

Think of it.

You're trying to hit a bull's eye on a moving target from a moving target and you're doing it using a rocket which will reach a speed of 25,000 miles per hour while it deliberately breaks apart into three separate pieces.

Then you're getting out and walking around on who knows what

in an environment that will immediately kill you given half a chance.

Then you're planting a flag turning around and you're given half a chance. Then you're planting a flag, turning around, and you're back home in time for tea and medals.

And by the way, you're planning and executing all of this with computers that are much less powerful than a single iPhone.

Not the cool iPhone either that you've got now, but the clunky

2007 one.

It's mind-bendingly complex, not to mention extraordinarily dangerous.

But they did it!

And yet one of those Apollo astronauts James Irwin said this, the entire space achievement is put in proper perspective

when one realizes that God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

God walking on the earth. That's what Matthew introduces us to in chapter one of his gospel. As he tells us about the birth of Jesus, he quotes a 700 year old prophecy and he says all this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the Prophet

behold the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us.

God with us. Or perhaps, despite the way we usually read it, there ought to be a little

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