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Capturing the True Nativity
Standing before a feeding trough in the barn among a cadre of farm animals, Reverend Hershel Beam read, “(Isaiah 9:6-7) For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and The Government shall be upon His Shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty GOD, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His Government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.” Behind him, the wall where once the “Fourteen Pillars of Wisdom” were scrawled across the boards in white chalk, but now scrubbed and bleached clean. He was the evening’s narr
