We typically think that the first people to learn of the birth of a new king apart from his family would be people of importance--noblemen presidents perhaps Why did God select shepherds as some of the first humans to learn that Messiah had come Jesus set His kingly attributes aside and became a man Jesus didn't have to be born in a stable--he chose to Stephen concludes his series entitled Emmanuel by looking at the birth announcement delivered to shepherds in a field [... more]