O Little Town of Bethlehem

By Brent Niedergall | December 21, 2018 |

A visit to Bethlehem by famed Boston preacher Phillips Brooks inspired him to write a carol for a Christmas Sunday school service. Would you believe it was exactly one hundred and fifty years ago on the nose that folks in 1868 sang his carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” for the very first time? This…

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Christmas in Bethlehem

By Wilbur Schoneweis | December 7, 2015

When the Shepherd Became My Lamb Wilbur Schoneweis The Christmas season is filled with many marvelous and encouraging themes in which the Christian can rejoice, be comforted, and glorify God. However, the Christian will have to look beyond the usual trappings of the season to find these themes. No season of the year is accompanied…

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