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We wish each other a merry Christmas, a joyful Christmas, a peaceful Christmas. But a disruptive Christmas? That might be the last thing we need this December. And yet, whenever God shows up in our world and in our lives, that\u2019s exactly what it is: disruptive. His arrival upends everything. Tonight, we celebrate God\u2019s arrival on earth as a baby. We might assume that a baby\u2019s birth would not have the ability to disrupt anything. And yet, the humble nature of God\u2019s arrival in the flesh disrupts every assumption and where and how God acts in our world. What now divides all of history into a \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter happened not in a palace or a temple but in a lowly manger.