Holy Ground: The Shepherds’ Fields
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We’ve heard this story so many times that it doesn’t surprise us like it ought to. And what boy hasn’t dressed like a shepherd for a Christmas play? But what was an ordinary workplace for these blue-collar sheep farmers became holy ground on this particular night. They were in for five surprises that would stay with them forever. Let’s try to put ourselves in their sandals.
I. The Audience (v. 8)
II. The Angels (v. 9)
III. The Announcement (vv. 10-12)
IV. The Anthem (vv. 13-14)
V. The Accuracy (vv. 15-20)
Talk with God: Ask the Lord for opportunities to turn your workplace into holy ground this week.
Talk with others: Invite a friend or family member to join you for a Christmas Eve service.
Talk with kids: What does it mean to worship Jesus as King?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. |
| 0:06.7 | We're so glad you've joined us today. Throughout history, God has chosen to enter our imperfect |
| 0:12.1 | world to reveal himself and draw near to his chosen people in moments where ordinary |
| 0:17.0 | places become holy ground. He still meets us in our everyday lives, and when we respond to his nearness with |
| 0:24.6 | reverence, the mundane becomes sacred. |
| 0:28.0 | Through this message with Pastor Skip, we'll discover how our homes, workplaces, |
| 0:32.7 | and relationships can become holy ground. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to our series on Holy Ground. |
| 0:42.1 | Are you feeling holy? |
| 0:44.2 | Well, you should because you are. |
| 0:46.5 | Would you turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, please, Chapter 2, Luke |
| 0:52.3 | Chapter 2. |
| 0:59.0 | We are doing a little series called Holy Ground. |
| 1:14.3 | We began in Nazareth. We went from Nazareth to a town somewhere in Judah, somewhere by Jerusalem, where Elizabeth and Zacharias lived. |
| 1:22.6 | On Christmas Eve, we're going to be in Bethlehem. I mean, not literally, but I have taken a group of our church to Bethlehem on a Christmas Eve years ago. |
| 1:28.8 | But we're going to be there in the text. |
| 1:31.4 | And then today, we are on the outskirts of Bethlehem and the shepherd's fields. |
| 1:37.1 | But we come to the night of the birth. |
| 1:43.1 | Joseph and Mary have taken a long trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It's Mary's second |
| 1:54.3 | trip. She was there close to there many months before visiting her cousin. She went back up to Nazareth. She's back down |
| 2:04.0 | because of a census that has been taken. But for today, it's as if the camera shifts to a rural |
| 2:16.0 | setting, the outskirts of town, where it's largely populated by sheep. Holy ground. |
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