The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person … Our task is … the sharing of intense faith and experie… - Halford E. Luccock

The Christian message is not an exhortation — "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

The central core of truth is that Christmas turns everything upside down, the upside of heaven come down to earth. The Christmas story puts a new value on every man. He is not a thing to be used, not a chemical accident, not an educated ape. Every man is a V.I.P., because he has divine worth. That was revealed when "Love came down at Christmas." A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.