Christmas Is For The Young... Whatever Their Age
16 Christmas Sermon Stories
The passage in Matthew 2:13-20 about the slaughter of children by King Herod is usually bypassed by most readers of the Christmas story. It is one of the passages which we would honestly like to ignore. We had rather think about the singing of angels, the birth of the child in the cattle stall, the shepherds, or the coming of the wise men. We want to focus on the joy, radiance, and beauty of Christmas. But in their telling of the birth of Christ, the gospel writers also pointed very clearly to the "beastly" element within the world.
