Suffering. Evil. Death. All of us experience them. They consume the lives of our precious loved ones—sometimes in unspeakably horrible ways. They bend us to the ground and produce tearful groanings too deep for words.
Jesus was not immune from these realities. Nor were those who found themselves caught in the cosmic crossfire surrounding the Incarnation. In Bethlehem, babies were killed because Jesus was born.
Here, Pastor John reads one of his most loved stories, The Innkeeper. He has us look into the face of tragedy, as experienced by Herod’s brutal slaughter of little boys. Then he turns us toward the shining face of hope. If we have the eyes of faith to see it, the sting of futility will be forever removed from death.
Merry Christmas.
Listen to Pastor John explain what motivated him to write “The Innkeeper.”
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