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When Light and Glory Banish Fear (Luke 2:15-18)

December 30, 2017December 31, 2017 by M. C. Fox

Though terrified at first by what they saw,

The shepherds were amazed by what they heard –

The angel’s message filled their hearts with awe –

To witness for themselves their feet were spurred.

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They Watched in Darkness (Luke 2:8-14)

December 30, 2017December 24, 2017 by M. C. Fox

The light of the stars, the bleating of sheep

Was all the resting shepherds sensed that night

In stillness so dark they fended off sleep –

When suddenly burst a glorious light.

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In the Shepherd’s Field (Luke 2:2-14

December 19, 2017 by M. C. Fox

The shepherds watched their flocks by starlight still

When witnessed they the angel of the Lord appear;

These outcasts heard this herald of God’s will,

Proclaiming, “Nevermore have you to fear!

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To Register the King (Luke 2:1-7)

December 7, 2017December 10, 2017 by M. C. Fox

To David’s City, Bethlehem, they went To register as Caesar had decreed; To scribes their house and names did they present The man, his pregnant virgin, and God’s seed. In their ancestral home of Israel’s king, While records still were being written down, To Earth in humble place did Mary bring Unrecognized one worthy of … Read moreTo Register the King (Luke 2:1-7)

The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55)

December 3, 2017 by M. C. Fox

“The mighty Lord my Spirit magnifies;

In God my savior does my soul rejoice,

For on His servant’s state He turns His eyes

And to this lowly being grants His voice.

Advent 2015 Day 5: Good News

January 18, 2016December 25, 2015 by M. C. Fox

Poem

Turn on the television – terror see –

And watch the news – the breaking horrors hear –

Roads ravaged, wrecked, in rubble and debris –

More car bombings – more fanatics to fear –

Another nation under terror shakes –

Another murder, more dividing views –

Another city destroyed when earth quakes –

Our Facebooks rattled by streaming bad news.

Turn off your feed of fear and hope now heed

And to the clarion of peacetime turn:

The source of utmost joy was born indeed

That everlasting love would in us burn.

The Gospel is the testimony true:

This News is always good and always new.

Passages

Isaiah 9:6

⁶For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon^[a] his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called^[b]
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.