Well, amen and Merry Christmas.

Church, I got to admit.

I'm so proud of you right now because on my way here, I just began to think the weather outside is frightful.

And I didn't know if anybody would be here with us, but it looks pretty full. That's awesome.

But I did believe this. I thought that if McCauley Calkin, aka Kevin McAllister, who was left home alone for three days in New York City, and also hunted down by the wet bandit gang.

If he could make it to church, then by God so would we.

And so I'm so glad that you are here.

If you got your Bibles, we're going to be in Matthew chapter 2.

And part of what we're going to do is we walk through a very familiar Christmas event is I am going to debunk a whole bunch of stuff that you think about Christmas because there's a lot of things that we've kind of incorporated into Christmas that aren't biblical at all.

I'm not saying they're bad.

They're just not very biblical.

Like the Christmas tree thing, that was a pagan thing, but hey, I like the Christmas tree too.

There's a bunch of our Christmas carols that aren't from the bible like silent night we're gonna sing it i'm pro silent night it just probably wasn't silent at all i have been a part of two bursts and by

a part i was like a just an observer and there was not we had by god's grace things like epidurals

and it was not silent understand there a's grace things like epidurals and it was not silent

understand there a way in a manger says that the baby wakes up Jesus with a cow in the

listen if there's a cow in your nursery he ain't going to go back to sleep I'm just telling you

these are facts okay and while there's a bunch of stuff that are just more traditional

than biblical there are some things that I think are very, very, very biblical. One being gifts. All right? So gift card usually fit me the best,

and they're my favorite colors. But I like gifts. I think gifts comes straight out of the Bible,

and we've got three sleeps until you get into the gifts. Are you ready? I hope you're ready.

And let me tell you, another thing not biblical, Santa Claus. I just, I'm pro Santa Claus. Just know

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