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Thanks for listening and thanks for your support at the end of 2023. 23. You would think that you would think that

you would think that preaching a Christmas sermon might be one of the easiest

sermons of a pastor could do. It's all laid out therefore you you simply have to

repeat what the angel says to you is born this day a Savior who is Christ the Lord and you can simply talk about who that baby in the manger is what that baby has come to do what he will do and he will do it for the whole world.

Seems easy, apparently not.

Stephen Fertie has a sermon on the Christmas narrative that ends up not being about Jesus

in the manger, but about you in a manger.

How do you get there?

Well, we'll find out here.

It's this week in pop Christianity. Today's Stephen

Ferdick's sermon on the Christmas narrative titled The Pajamas Our Prophecy.

That's Chris Rosebrough joins us. He's pastor of Consf or Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minnesota, creator

host of the YouTube channel fighting for the faith. Chris, welcome back.

Thanks for having me back Todd. We're gonna hear some excerpts from Stephen

Fertig's Christmas sermon, but I want to try, if possible, to get into the mind of

preachers like Stephen Ferdigg that why do they feel compelled to take even something like

the story of Christ's birth and make it all about us.

I would note that men like Stephen Fertick and others, they suffer from an over-inflated ego.

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