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Sunday Devotions: Out-Heroding Herod

Sunday Devotions: Out-Heroding Herod

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For Christmas Sunday, we read theological poetry: “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:5). As the season of Christmas continues, today we read another gospel’s bracing account of the futile, terrible extent to which the darkness would go to extinguish the light:

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wi…

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