Amen. Amen and amen. And good morning and meli caliqi maka.

I practiced all week on that. You can be seated now. Those of you online, Merry Christmas.

So glad you're joining with us. First though, before we get started, I wanted to let you know that our medical missions team returned safely from Nepal yesterday.

Yeah.

Praise the Lord.

But we need to continue praying for them, especially those who are still not well and need

God's healing touch on them.

Lord willing, we're hoping to schedule a time like we did last time where they can come up

and share with us all that God did on this missions trip once they're settled and they've

recovered so we're looking forward to that all right first service is usually our verse by

verse study through currently the book of revelation but I'm going to break from that for this year's Christmas sermon instead,

because this is the last supper, I mean the last Sunday before Christmas, right? So this is the Christmas sermon.

I spent some time seeking and inquiring of the Lord.

And this year in particular was different in a good way.

Because I sense that the Lord was directing me to

title the sermon and talk about why some don't celebrate Christmas.

We're talking Christians, but why we still do.

That's what I want to talk with you about.

Here's what I'm hoping to accomplish with this Christmas sermon. First,

I want to respectfully, and I highlight the word respectfully explain the reasons why some

refuse, Christians we're talking about, refused to celebrate Christmas.

Then, if you'll kindly allow me to, I also want to explain the reasons as to why we always have, do now,

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