merry christmas livestream people merry christmas, real people in the room, we sure appreciate and love you. Um just thank you for bearing with us christmas I think like four years ago when we did christmas, we don’t even like saying christmas songs and we kind of forgot I’m saying the royal, we like me. I kind of forgot about we’re rolling through some other passages and stuff and I know how do you forget that? I don’t know. So we’re growing up here as a church and getting our act together. I mean like I’m wearing a jacket then and dan wore jackets, we’re just we’re getting better at celebrating christmas as a church. Amen. All right. All right, so merry christmas welcome. So a lot of christmas parties. I’ll give you a conversational piece. You should not use a conversational piece. You should not use for all these many christmas parties you’re going to is tell me your birth story. That’s a that’s an awkward exchange. Every time my my friend’s wife started talking about babies and births and what happened and stuff. I leave the room or try to awkwardly change the conversation. I have my own kids, birth was traumatic enough. I am not looking forward to hearing about someone else’s kids traumatic birth. It is just brutal what fathers have to go through. So bring life into this. Welcome merry christmas. All right, So today we’re looking at the birth story of jesus before we jump into that I had a New Year’s resolution last january that I would send and receive more memes that I gained weight and I watch more netflix and so here is a mean one of our leaders posted into our leaders group, me threat where we communicate, it was supposed to be a broadcasting communication thread but it’s becoming more like a ha ha funny meme thread for our 50 some leaders in our church. So we just love you all merry christmas and so this week is advent week three next week, Shane is doing advent week for christmas eve, we like that fifth candle for our christmas eve advent advent series. So I appreciate you taking time to come here and think and celebrate and contemplated worship with God and others. So let’s bow our heads and take a moment and pray God. I just, this is a visited planet God, we are lucky to be able to spend time together and worship you this morning through songs and through prayer and through contemplation and through the way we live, this is a visited planet God, you’ve been very good to us. Up to this point in our life, we can trust you gonna be good to us the rest of our lives Lord, this is a visited planet Lord where you sent your son, jesus the visit of this planet through the birth of the virgin teenage mom in Bethlehem that is an amazing birth story that we’re gonna look at today. We just want to worship you, appreciate you, admire you and let you and your example form the rest of our world do we just commit this time to you, create the word of God will come alive in our lives and that we would respond rightly to the word of God. We’d listen rightly to the word of God. We listen to understand and listen to obey the word of God. We commit this time to you in jesus name. Amen in luke eight luke two verse eight we’re gonna pick up in verse eight, but I’m going to tell you the quick backstory to the birth story vs. One and two. We talk about the caesar who is leading the known world at that time, who is occupying the nation of Israel mary and joseph lived under the roman rule. They required all of the people to go back to their their their hometown to register for a census so they can tax people. All right. So taxes is what got mary and joseph mobilized 80 miles on back of a donkey mary on the back of a donkey. Nine months pregnant. As the miles went by. The reality, the cold, grim reality of that cold winter day was that she is go…