THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS (2 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-3
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There’s Just Something about Christmas (2 of 3)
Series: Christmas, Love Extended
Scott Maze
Hebrews 1:1-3
It’s now just two weeks and just fourteen days until Christmas! Christmas is so exciting for so many reasons: family gathering together, time off from work and obligations, and the strong sense of nostalgia we all feel this time of year.
Nat King Cole captured the sentiment of the season for many of us:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to 92
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you.
But we are miscommunicating the essence of Christmas if we think the holiday is simply chestnuts roasting on an open fire. So many people simply miss the essence of the Christmas message.
Sometimes our best efforts are lost in translation. Years ago, in some of the Spanish versions of the movie Star Wars, the translator translated Chewbacca into the Spanish words meaning, ‘‘Chewing Tabaco!’’
Some years ago, Pepsi wanted to say, ‘‘Come alive! You’re the Pepsi generation’’ in China. They literally translated the slogan and found out it meant, ‘‘Pepsi will bring back your ancestors from the dead!’’
One more...we all know that KFC’s chicken is ‘‘Finger-lickin good,’’ but when KFC opened its doors in China in the late 1980s, I don’t think they meant to say, ‘‘Eat your fingers off.’’
Like these, so many people simply miss the essence of the Christmas message. In the moments to come, I want you to know why Jesus is the Voice of Christmas.
Find Hebrews 1 with me, if you will. Hebrews 1 celebrates and declares the greatness of Jesus. Here in the early parts of Hebrews, we have what some have called the ‘‘nosebleed’’ section of Christology.
Today’s Scripture
‘‘Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in th ...
Series: Christmas, Love Extended
Scott Maze
Hebrews 1:1-3
It’s now just two weeks and just fourteen days until Christmas! Christmas is so exciting for so many reasons: family gathering together, time off from work and obligations, and the strong sense of nostalgia we all feel this time of year.
Nat King Cole captured the sentiment of the season for many of us:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to 92
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you.
But we are miscommunicating the essence of Christmas if we think the holiday is simply chestnuts roasting on an open fire. So many people simply miss the essence of the Christmas message.
Sometimes our best efforts are lost in translation. Years ago, in some of the Spanish versions of the movie Star Wars, the translator translated Chewbacca into the Spanish words meaning, ‘‘Chewing Tabaco!’’
Some years ago, Pepsi wanted to say, ‘‘Come alive! You’re the Pepsi generation’’ in China. They literally translated the slogan and found out it meant, ‘‘Pepsi will bring back your ancestors from the dead!’’
One more...we all know that KFC’s chicken is ‘‘Finger-lickin good,’’ but when KFC opened its doors in China in the late 1980s, I don’t think they meant to say, ‘‘Eat your fingers off.’’
Like these, so many people simply miss the essence of the Christmas message. In the moments to come, I want you to know why Jesus is the Voice of Christmas.
Find Hebrews 1 with me, if you will. Hebrews 1 celebrates and declares the greatness of Jesus. Here in the early parts of Hebrews, we have what some have called the ‘‘nosebleed’’ section of Christology.
Today’s Scripture
‘‘Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in th ...
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