Christmas Fever

I like December. I like the first taste of snow, I like the Christmas lights, I like the fact that people are listening to Christmas music (as long as I don't have to listen to it all the time). I like seeing people with money to spend coming home with new TVs and IPods. Sometimes I envy them, but mostly I just admire.

This year I have to preach 4 times in December. This is a new challenge that I haven't yet faced. So to prepare myself, I have decided to reread The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancy. I am really enjoying it. I also intend to spend significant time reading the Gospel accounts of the birth. My thinking and preaching this December is going to ask one main question--this question was the theme of my last sermon--If Jesus was here today, what would He say to us? How would we respond?