Pastor Taylor Shippy - Micah 5:1-5a; 2 Kings 24-25; Matthew 2:1-6

“The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” In this beloved Christmas carol, it recognized that Christmas is inherently a mixture of despair and hope… Christmas has been (and still is) intrinsically a combination of both pain and joy… darkness and light… Christmas is this way because it was prophesied in this context…