Teaching Tuesday: The Marvel of the Shepherds - Luke 2:8-20

Series: Marvel (Advent 2025)
Sermon: The Marvel of the Shepherds - Luke 2:8-20 (12.14.25)
Watch the messages HERE. 

This is the poem Dad (Robert Cremeens) read during service yesterday. I love it very much, and wanted to share it with you again. It was written by Richard Wilbur and published in 1961. The poem is titled A Christmas Hymn:  

A stable-lamp is lighted
Whose glow shall wake the sky;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
And straw like gold shall shine;
A barn shall harbor heaven,
A stall become a shrine.

This child through David’s city
Shall ride in triumph by;
The palm shall strew its branches,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
Though heavy, dull, and dumb,
And lie within the roadway
To pave his kingdom come.

Yet he shall be forsaken,
And yielded up to die;
The sky shall groan and darken,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry
For stony hearts of men:
God’s blood upon the spearhead,
God’s love refused again.

But now, as at the ending,
The low is lifted high;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.

TO KNOW HIM AND MAKE HIM KNOWN!

- Pastor Brady