Sent By The Father

Ray Boltz names the manger story as already familiar in "Sent By The Father" — "one more time you've heard the story of our Savior's birth, heard how few beheld His glory when He came to earth" — before shifting the entire song's attention toward an event still ahead: "but soon every eye shall see Him, angels at His side."

"See Him now on a great white stallion in the eastern sky" borrows Revelation's imagery directly, replacing the quiet manger scene with a public, unmistakable arrival. The chorus's repeated instruction, "Jesus, go and call my children," frames the second coming as summons rather than spectacle, and "every tongue confess that He is Lord" quotes Philippians almost word for word.

"We won't need a star to guide us, we'll be going home" answers the wise men's search from the first Christmas with an ending that requires no searching at all, and "once a baby in a manger, no room at the inn, now a king who reigns forever over death and sin" states the song's whole argument as a single before-and-after. The repeated chorus, marked to sing twice, lets the same trumpet and the same bowed heads close the song exactly as they opened its central image.