It’s the familiar Christmas hymn we sing every year, or at least that we watch the Peanuts gang sing at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas every year. But because it’s so familiar, because the language is somewhat archaic, and because the words go by so quickly with the (rightly) triumphant melody, I fear we miss Charles Wesley’s masterpiece of a theology lesson, for Hark! The Herald Angels Sing may be the most theologically rich Christmas hymn ever written. Take a moment with me to allow Wesley’s poetry to guide our meditation on the birth of Christ.