A little boy was doing a school project on his family. He came home one day and asked: “Dad, where did I come from?” The flustered father replied: “The stork brought you.” A while later he asked his mother, “Mum, where did you come from?” “I was found under a gooseberry bush,” she said. Granny also happened to be staying with them so the little boy asked her, and she too held the same line, “The stork brought me,” she said. – Well next day, he went back to school and started to write his project. It began: There hasn’t been a normal birth in our family for three generations…

In the case of Jesus though, it really wasn’t a normal birth because Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit: (Well actually, it was a normal birth. It was not a normal conception!) Does that seem far-fetched to you? It’s not just far-fetched – it’s absurd, it’s impossible, humanly speaking. But that is precisely the point. This was God intervening in the world, in a unique way: it was a miracle.

Source: The Real Christmas, Christianity Explored booklet, by Marcus Hodder and Tim Thornborough, New Malden, Surrey: The Good Book Company, p.3-4

A little boy was doing a school project on his family. He came home one day and asked: “Dad, where did I come from?” The flustered father replied: “The stork brought you.” A while later he asked his mother, “Mum, where did you come from?” “I was found under a gooseberry bush,” she said. Granny also happened to be staying with them so the little boy asked her, and she too held the same line, “The stork brought me,” she said. – Well next day, he went back to school and started to write his project. It began: There hasn’t been a normal birth in our family for three generations…

In the case of Jesus though, it really wasn’t a normal birth because Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit: (Well actually, it was a normal birth. It was not a normal conception!) Does that seem far-fetched to you? It’s not just far-fetched – it’s absurd, it’s impossible, humanly speaking. But that is precisely the point. This was God intervening in the world, in a unique way: it was a miracle.

Source: The Real Christmas, Christianity Explored booklet, by Marcus Hodder and Tim Thornborough, New Malden, Surrey: The Good Book Company, p.3-4