Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director, Timothy Ateak.

We hope you enjoy the message. Well, hey, everybody. Hey, welcome to break away Christmas.

Hey, welcome to Breakaway Christmas.

Just for the sake of reintroduction, my name is Kylin.

I'm the associate director here at Breakaway.

You know, it's funny.

Whenever Christmas rolls around, people fall into a pretty wide variety of categories

with respect to how they celebrate with respect to how they celebrate

this holiday. But the truth is, most people do celebrate Christmas. You know, maybe it's the

lights, maybe it's the decorations, maybe it's the stockings hung over the mantle or the Christmas

tree or maybe it's giving gifts. Maybe you love the act of giving gifts away,

or maybe you just love the act of getting gifts along the way.

Maybe it's Christmas music.

Like really, like some of you have been listening

to Christmas music since Halloween, right?

Like really, let's ask the question,

like how soon is too soon to start listening

to Christmas music? Never, like, how soon is too soon to start listening to Christmas music?

Never. Okay, perfect. No, you know, there's, there are several things in Christmas that cause people to get bought into the season. So the question tonight isn't, hey, is Christmas lovable? Is it something that we should buy into? Everybody does. Like Pew

Research, it came out and it said in a recent study that 90% of Americans, regardless of religious

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