With all the angels who filled the sky so long ago, we lift our voices, our Father, to proclaim your praise and say, “Glory to God in the highest heaven!” You are worthy of praise because you are the everlasting Lord. You are worthy of praise because you are the King that outlasts – and is far above – all earthly rulers and leaders. You are worthy of praise because you do great and mighty things for our good and your glory. Lord Jesus, you have taken on yourself the weight an

(Jon Bloom is an editor at www.desiringgod.org) Bethlehem, at the time of Jesus’s birth, was a little town with a population of only about three hundred. Yet within a period of just a few months, it saw the gloriously humble entrance of God the Son into the world (Luke 2), as well as the brutal deaths of baby boys by the command of Herod the Great, who tried to kill the Son (Matthew 2). It’s not unlikely that a few inhabitants witnessed both events firsthand. We too are cau