
December 13: Bethlehem, Luke 2.1 – 7
Joseph must return to Bethlehem, his homeland, to be counted by a census; it is there Jesus will be born. From where does your family herald, and what significance does it play in your life today? (post your comments below or on our facebook page @bandonpresbyterian)
“Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung. Of Jesse’s lineage coming, As men of old have sung; It came, a flow’ret bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night.”
The English translation of the sixteenth-century carol, Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming was written by Theodore Baker in 1894.,