Give a warm welcome this morning as we launch our Christmas series this month to a wonderful man of God and a great researcher, William Federer.

Thank you, Pastor.

All right, bless you.

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

Well, I want you to know that I get a chance to go around the country

and I've been all 50 states speaking. There are people all across America that call Pastor Jack,

their pastor. And so you are helping to impact the entire world by supporting Pastor Jack.

Well, I wrote a book. It's called

There Really is a Santa Claus, the history of St. Nicholas and Christmas holiday traditions.

And so I'm going to do my first service on December 25th, giving the history of that. And then in the

next service, I'm going to give the history of Santa Claus. It's fascinating,

but I'm not going to get into that right now. So did you know that Christianity is the largest

religion in the world? According to Pew Research Center, approximately a third of the world

is Christian. And so since Christianity, by the way, it's also the most persecuted religion in the world,

but did you know that Jesus was sent into the world that was at the time a one-world anti-Christian government?

I mean, if you're going to start a movement, give it a little bit of greenhouse time where it can grow before you let...

No, immediately the church was persecuted, right?

So we win.

But so, so Christmas could be considered the most celebrated religious holiday in the world.

Christianity is the largest religion.

Most Christians celebrate December 20 years.

So this could be, so the Roman Empire.

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