The Mystery of Bethlehem

by Herman Hoeksema

Messages on the wonder of Christ's birth

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Chapter Headings:

1. The Prince of Peace

2. The Sun of Righteousness

3. The Herald of Daybreak

4. Fulfillment of the Promise

5. That Ever Wonderful Story

6. The Firstborn

7. His Only Place

8. No Room For Him

9. Jesus

10. The Advent Sign

11. Christmas Joy

12. Great Joy

13. Tidings of Joy

14. Heavenly Praise

15. Bethlehem's Hidden Revelation

16. Returning

17. Nunc Dimittis

18. The Contradicted Sign

19. Anna

20. The Christ-Child As Lord of All

The first edition of this book was hastily collected by the author and printed in time for Christmas in 1944.  In the new edition, eight chapters were added. These additional chapters were chosen from Christmas meditations in the Standard Bearer.

These meditations are still current in their appeal.  The same social issues of war and peace, wealth, honour, and fame confront us yet today.  Our sinfulness and the grace that comes to us through Bethlehem are ever-present in our lives.

In these devotional chapters the reader will enjoy Herman Hoeksema's flowing yet thorough style—a style that skilfully brings the reader closer to the mystery, the wonder of the events at Bethlehem.

"What child of God, saved by grace, does not turn with an ever new interest and spiritual delight to Bethlehem in ‘the fulness of time,’ to contemplate in humble adoration the mystery of salvation, revealed, yet hid, in the Child in the manger? With the confession that this Child of the virgin Mary is the Son of God come into the flesh the Christian faith stands or falls. Yet who shall ever fathom this Wonder of all wonders, that the infinite, eternal glorious, and ever living God united Himself with finite and weak human nature, appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, reached down into the depth of our death to lift us into the glorious heights of His everlasting covenant? Millions of sermons have been delivered on this theme, volumes have been filled with it, profound treatises have been written on it, and simple stories have been told about it; but the theme was never exhausted and always kindles anew the interest of the believer" ("Preface" to The Mystery of Bethlehem).