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Podcast: First Pres Colorado Springs Sermons (Video)
Episode: Everlasting Light: Everlasting Light
Description: In 1865, Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, then rector of Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land during Christmas. One evening after dinner the group rode on horseback two hours until they broached a hillside and looked down on the town of Bethlehem. It inspired him to write the poem which his music minister put to music, producing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” with that enduring line, “In thy dark streets shineth, the everlasting light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” In the middle of the darkness, there come...