Christmas for a Land of Deep Darkness

In this sermon on Numbers 31-32, Pastor David Mathis contrasts God’s command to “kill every male among the little ones” to the similar acts of anger ordered by Herod in Bethlehem and Pharaoh in Egypt. This passage is a dark subject for the Sunday before Christmas, but this is actually the real setting for Christmas - a desperate, cursed, evil world in which surprising light dawns. Here’s three rays of Advent light we see in this land of deep darkness...
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