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I\u2019ve just posted a brief recap<\/a> of what we covered today in my Sunday school class, as well as what we\u2019ll be doing next time. I tried to move forward in as open-ended a fashion as possible, and I think the topics we touched on ended up being a bit too scattered. Hopefully by looking at a familiar set of stories and asking historical as well as cultural and other kinds of questions, we\u2019ll be able to keep more focused next time. And at the pace we usually move in my classes, if we start talking about the infancy narratives in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2 now, then we should still be in them at Christmas time\u2026<\/p>\n

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