Sermons And Children's Lessons For Advent, Christmas And Epiphany
This is a day for telling, as Paul Harvey says at the end of every radio broadcast, "the rest of the story," that is, the rest of the story surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. It is the tale of how the heavens themselves entered into the birth event with the appearance of a star - the Star of Jesus, not the Star of David - in the sky, which became a sign for the wise men from the East that a mighty king had been born, in Israel. There is a mystery here that will never be completely understood; how did they comprehend that the bright star in the sky had significance for them and all people?
