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 Breakaway's Executive Director, Timothy Atik.

We hope you enjoy the message. And Well, hey everybody.

Hey, welcome to Breakaway Christmas.

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

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

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. 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

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