Author: Kelly Keller

When this secular tune about the written word was matched to this sacred poem about Word Made Flesh, the world was given a gift: a doctrinally weighty, yet joyfully light, celebration of Immanuel, God Come Near.

he reminds us that the centerpiece of God’s creative imagination is Bethlehem, “…site of the Incarnation, flash point of the joining of heaven and earth, invisible and visible reality, transcendent and material.”

Where is the promised goodwill and peace? It seems to have disappeared.

It feels unnatural to sit still in such a time, so we double down and get busy in a flurry of frantic activity. We sense we are losing control, so we scramble to regain it.

The specific nature of the birth of Christ is mind-boggling: it was on a certain day, in a certain town, to a certain pair of people.