Tim Keller: Why Christmas Matters

We sing it every year in our Christmas carols, especially in “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” when we cry out: “Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see; hail the incarnate Deity.”The Apostles’ Creed doesn’t use it, but it teaches the doctrine of it when we read, “conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary.”Incarnation. If you understand the word incarnation, you’ll understand what Christmas is about.Christmas is frankly doctrinal. The invisible has become visible, the incorporeal has become cor