Even pastors have a hard time talking about Christmas without the sentimental, or cultural, or political B.S. attached to the holiday.
Most pastors decry the commercialized B.S. of Christmas: but of course, the holiday is the year's biggest "sales-pitch" for churches, same as for Walmart.
Why wouldn't it be ? The Church invented Christmas, and holds the patent.
So this is best sermon I've ever heard on Christmas: that Christ's birth is God's intervention in human history to save mankind from merciless death by self-rule. That our HOPE does not rest on Saul, or Augustus, or Herod, or Trump.
That God enacts in Jesus' human flesh His promise to every human being, that His unlimited love rules, now and forever, in "righteousness, and peace, and joy."
Sermon starts at the 31:24 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILN4kBQ0jt4
