The Savior is Born (4 of 5)
Series: The Christmas Story
Scott Maze
Luke 2:1-20
Linus from Peanuts on video reads the Christmas story prior to my sermon.
Today's Scripture
Read Luke 2:1-20
Traci and I are kids from the 1970s. And among the things that makes the holiday season special is A Charlie Brown Christmas, a show that has aired every year from its inception. In 1965 Charles Schulz insisted that THE Christmas story from Luke was essential to his show. But it almost never came to be. The executives of CBS did not want Linus reciting the story of the birth of Christ from Luke's gospel. The network figureheads assumed that viewers wouldn't want to sit through passages from the King James Bible. Because of a tight production schedule, Schulz got it his way. But, most were leery of Schulz's idea of including Linus' reading from Luke's Christmas - even the voice of Snoopy questioned the decision. Airing on December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas was an enormous success. Half of the TV's in America watched the show when it first aired. Indeed, it was the highest rated Christmas special in the history of TV. The special even won an Emmy and a Peabody - and Charlie Brown never won anything!
In the world's rush to celebrate Christmas, it does its very best to extract the principles of Christmas from the Person of Christmas. What makes today's story important is not its commercial success over the past half-century. Instead, the story is important because Luke presents the story as real. Luke doesn't begin with the words, ''Once upon a time.'' Instead, he gives a marker where we can date the story when he mentions ''Caesar Augustus'' and ''Quirinius was governor of Syria.'' This was a real day and a real place - Syria. ''For unto you is born this day...'' (Luke 2:11a). This isn't a mythical day but a real day and a real place. It was a real day and a real city. Bethlehem is located in the West Bank and it is approximately 7,000 miles from where ...
Series: The Christmas Story
Scott Maze
Luke 2:1-20
Linus from Peanuts on video reads the Christmas story prior to my sermon.
Today's Scripture
Read Luke 2:1-20
Traci and I are kids from the 1970s. And among the things that makes the holiday season special is A Charlie Brown Christmas, a show that has aired every year from its inception. In 1965 Charles Schulz insisted that THE Christmas story from Luke was essential to his show. But it almost never came to be. The executives of CBS did not want Linus reciting the story of the birth of Christ from Luke's gospel. The network figureheads assumed that viewers wouldn't want to sit through passages from the King James Bible. Because of a tight production schedule, Schulz got it his way. But, most were leery of Schulz's idea of including Linus' reading from Luke's Christmas - even the voice of Snoopy questioned the decision. Airing on December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas was an enormous success. Half of the TV's in America watched the show when it first aired. Indeed, it was the highest rated Christmas special in the history of TV. The special even won an Emmy and a Peabody - and Charlie Brown never won anything!
In the world's rush to celebrate Christmas, it does its very best to extract the principles of Christmas from the Person of Christmas. What makes today's story important is not its commercial success over the past half-century. Instead, the story is important because Luke presents the story as real. Luke doesn't begin with the words, ''Once upon a time.'' Instead, he gives a marker where we can date the story when he mentions ''Caesar Augustus'' and ''Quirinius was governor of Syria.'' This was a real day and a real place - Syria. ''For unto you is born this day...'' (Luke 2:11a). This isn't a mythical day but a real day and a real place. It was a real day and a real city. Bethlehem is located in the West Bank and it is approximately 7,000 miles from where ...
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