Sermonette for Jan. 7, 2019

And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

Luke 2:18

Among the people (and animals) in the Nativity, shepherds may be the most surprising.

In first century Palestine, shepherds were weird. They stunk of barn animals, they worked from sunup to sundown, always on call if a sheep should get separated from the pack. They were not Jewish insiders.

But an angel of the Lor...