A Catholic priest is under fire for his Christmas Day declaration that Jesus was "a Palestinian Jew born into an occupied country" as critics maintained the name "Palestine" was not applied to the territory until nearly a century after Christ's crucifixion.
As I read last week’s headlines, I was reminded of a passage from the Old Testament prophet Micah. Micah, who was a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, had a ministry in southern Judah (Micah 1.1).
In Jesus, we have the mind of God thinking, the heart of God beating, the hands of God reaching and the feet of God walking. He is the one who was promised from long ago.