Sermon Tone Analysis

I've heard about this baby boy

Who's come to earth to bring us joy

And I just want to sing this song to you

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

(HCSB) — 14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us.

We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

I've heard about this baby boy

Who's come to earth to bring us joy

And I just want to sing this song to you

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

A couple came to Bethlehem

Expecting child, they searched the inn

To find a place for You were coming soon

There was no room for them to stay

So in a manger filled with hay

God's only Son was born, oh Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

The shepherds left their flocks by night

To see this baby wrapped in light

A host of angels led them all to You

It was just as the angels said

You'll find Him in a manger bed

Immanuel and Savior, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

A star shown bright up in the east

To Bethlehem, the wisemen three

Came many miles and journeyed long for You

And to the place at which You were

Their frankincense and gold and myrrh

They gave to You and cried out Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I know You came to rescue me

This baby boy would grow to be

A man and one day die for me and you

My sins would drive the nails in You

That rugged cross was my cross, too

Still every breath You drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Tonight across the world Christians are celebrating the birth of Christ.

They are doing so with carols and pageants, candles, and communion.

They are taking time as are we to sit quietly during a busy season and remember the meaning of Christmas.

Tonight across the world Christians are celebrating the birth of Christ.

They are doing so with carols and pagents, candles, and communion.

They are taking time as are we to sit quietly during a busy season and remember the meaning of Christmas.

When I was in school there was a big push to Keep Christ in Christmas, the dreaded, one dare not write Merry Xmas to save space, because that meant you were somehow denying Christ.

Every year there was a poster contest, students across the state would draw, paint, color, posters separated by grade with one rule.

They had to say Keep Christ in Christmas.

If your poster was chosen it was displayed at the local mall.

One year my poster was chosen, we made the trek to the mall to see it and get a picture of me standing beside my poster.

Warm and fuzzy right.

But like so many things that happen in the world of Christianity we missed the point.

No one seemed to bother doing the research about Xmas in the first place, no one took time to find out that it was first used in the 1500’s that X is the Greek letter Chi and the first letter in Xpiotos or Christ, the mas was the old English word for mass, Xpian and Xtian have been used in place of the formal word Christian as well.

Christians lose focus so easily, it’s easier at times to be offended than to attempt to understand, it’s easier to make noise than to sit quietly and listen, easier to get caught up in the business of Christmas and the busyness of all that has to be done in life especially at this time of year that we forget the purpose.

Who is the word?

(HCSB) — 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Immanuel God with us… Jesus God in the Flesh.

Philippians tells us what we are supposed to do and remember, something that should inform our celebration of the Birth of Christ.

(HCSB) — 5 Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage.

7 Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men.

And when He had come as a man in His external form, 8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.

(Sing Mary Did you Know)

Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?

Mary did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?

Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?

This child that you've delivered, will soon deliver you

Mary did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?

Mary did you know that your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?

Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?

When you kiss your little baby, you kiss the face of God

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again

The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb

Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?

Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?

Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?

That sleeping child you're holding is the great I am

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Mary did you know?

Oh

Mary did you know?

This is what we celebrate tonight.

God wanting to be in relationship with us so much that he was willing to set aside all of the perks and powers that come with being God.

Stepping out of eternity, into a finite human existence( expand on this)

I talk about us being Jesus with Skin to people.