Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

Many of us have uncomfortable stories of how our parents chose to explain to us the birds and the bees. My husband was taken on a hunting trip to Idaho

where he had his explanation of how life comes

about.

I mostly picked it up from my classmates, sparing my mom that conversation.

And no matter how you found out, by the time you reach high school, most people know the stork doesn't really drop off babies on your doorstep.

A man and a woman have sex, conceive a child, and nine to ten months later later a baby is born from the mother.

That's scientific fact.

It's how it always works and always has worked.

And yet, a large majority of the world's population who consider themselves Christians casually

sing songs around this time about a virgin mother and her new baby boy.

We just know that Mary was a virgin. If you've been in the church since childhood, you've literally

grown up hearing about the Virgin Mary since you were conceived. It's just a tidbit of scripture

we accept and move on from, but maybe don't often consider that often.

It's also a fact of scripture that a lot of people outside the church find hard to swallow.

How could you possibly believe in a virgin birth? Even some

within the church try to explain their way out of a literal virgin birth to

reconcile that tension they feel with modern scientific fact. Is that okay? Does it really

matter if Mary was a virgin or not? Can Jesus still be Jesus without a virgin

birth? Well today in the first chapter of Luke we are confronted with a section of

scripture that explicitly lays out the virgin conception and so I want to take the little

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