For his Christmas 2 sermon Clay Nelson revels in the mystical language of John's version of Christmas but struggles to wrap his mind around grace and its implications. "With John we are given, in beautiful language, a concept to play with. It is a radical concept. It is the radical notion that the divine was made flesh in the person of Jesus. While Christianity has traditionally seemed to imply this was only true in Jesus, an alternative understanding is that Jesus revealed all of humanity to be the flesh of the divine. How does a painter paint that unless it is a portrait of six billion people?" Full text and video links at www.stmatthews.org.nz.