The Star of Bethlehem
Jesus, the Messiah, the God-man had come to earth in a miraculous way, and God proclaimed His coming with the shekinah glory.
Jesus, the Messiah, the God-man had come to earth in a miraculous way, and God proclaimed His coming with the shekinah glory.
It is hard to imagine that the God of all the universe would become a man. Indeed, Jesus was not only a man, but at one point was also a child.
Ken Boa discusses the humble yet glorious way in which the God who made the universe chose to enter His own creation.
In this chapter of Jesus’ birth and youth, we see the third and fourth of four hymns in Luke’s Gospel: the Gloria in Excelsis of the heavenly host and the Nunc Dimittis of Simeon.
The manger and the cross are an unlikely but undeniable pair, like bookends facing the opposite direction: the one, the enduring image of Christmas; the other, the enduring image of Easter.
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