Stephen Nichols

But it approaches midnight, Christmas, and they all make their way back into the trenches.

And at 12 o'clock, once again, the rat-tat-tat of the gunfire and the exploding of bombs fills the air again.

And I think it's symbolic of how people really want peace.

But the way this world presents the solution to peace, it's a band-aid.

It's not going to be a true solution because it doesn't get to the true problem.

And we need peace not because we're at war with each other or nations are at war.

We ultimately need peace because we are at war with God.

And that's where the Christmas story needs to start.

And it needs to acknowledge the anxiety and the tension and the conflict and the strife that is in life, not whitewash it.

It's there because of who we are as sinners before God.

And now, now we have Christmas.

And now we have the gift of this precious God-man, Jesus Christ, God's beloved Son.

And that's the solution.

That's the path to true peace.

We can go back to the Old Testament here.

So you had mentioned the book has three parts.

There's promise, there's fulfillment, and there's reflections.

And essentially, promise is the Old Testament.

Fulfillment is the gospels.

This is the coming of the seed.