The Sounding Joy: Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Every Christmas we hear and sing old familiar carols, but do we
recognize the significance of the words we sing? This Advent season
we are taking a break from our Revelation series to look at the
lyrics of some of the most theologically-rich Christmas carols and
the Scriptures that inspired them. This week we began our series
with "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," considering the meaning of
lines like "late in time behold him come," "offspring of a virgin's
womb," "hail the incarnate deity," and "mild he lays his glory by."
Christmas inspires us to think about two mysteries of our faith -
the Trinity and the Incarnation - both of which our minds struggle
to comprehend. We reflected on the meaning and significance of
these mysteries.