Hey, today, today we're beginning our brand new Christmas series because it's a brand new Christmas season.

And the series is entitled, Sinners Like Me. And when I suggested this title, there was some feedback from some of our staff.

It's like, Andy, do you really think people are going to invite their friends to a Christmas series called Sinners Like Me?

I'm like, absolutely, because we all know that we are all sinners like the people

around us, right? This is kind of common ground. So I just want to begin this way. On the day I die,

I know where I'm going to go. Me and Jesus got that part worked out. I'll wait at the gates

until his face I see and stand in a long line of sinners like me.

La-di-da-di-da-di-da. La-di-da-da-di-da-di. I come from a long line of sinners like me and like you

and like Eric. So here's why we're talking about this.

If you grow up going to church, and many of us did,

and maybe you're back in church for the first time in a long time,

or you're watching because you're visiting with friends for the holidays,

and it's like they say, we watch church on Sunday morning,

so there you sit.

But if you grow up in or around church,

you know that we all have a

tendency to some extent to sanitize and a bit of, you know, kind of glamorize. And literally, in some

cases, we have a tendency to kind of romanticize some of the narratives found in the Bible. And that's

understandable, but it's also unfortunate. It's understandable because we want to teach our children the stories of the Bible.

And some of the stories of the Bible, you know, they just have some don't look over their children parts to them.

But unfortunately, if you bring that mindset as an adult into adulthood, that's when it becomes unfortunate that we have a tendency to glamorize and romanticize

and kind of stand off the rough edges of some of the biblical narratives. But here's the thing.

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