Today on the Evangelist Podcast, O Christmas Dream.
SPEAKER_00The Evangelist Podcast from Revival. Find out what's new in telling people the good news about God, the world, and you with Andy Brinkley and Glenn Scrivener.
SPEAKER_01Welcome back to the Evangelist Podcast. We're doing an impromptu impromptu recording today from Glenn's office. It's a bit more echoey, but uh computer fan noise and cars going by. It's uh very authentic. That's right. This is what it's like to be me. Yeah, welcome.
SPEAKER_05Welcome into my head.
SPEAKER_01Um we're just quickly going to um uh run through what uh what we've been doing recently. We've been doing this uh this video. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh and uh we you've heard all about it if you're a regular listener to the podcast. Yes, okay. We we finally released it. Yeah. Um give us a little uh teaser, then.
SPEAKER_05I think it began it began life as a sort of a sermon illustration, and then I've used it in 321 as an illustration of you know the race of Adam is sort of cut off from God. Um used it in various places, but we thought we'd film it. That the human race is like a Christmas tree, cut off, wrenched from its natural habitat, disconnected, perishing, but dressed up in all sorts of you know, decorations and you know this is the human race. But the good news of Christmas is that Jesus is really earthed into our humanity, but he is also connected to his life sourcing God, and so he is the true flourishing tree that we can get grafted into. So that's the big idea behind it. And uh I kind of I thought I was just gonna sort of speak to camera and do the story, but as I sort of started writing the script, um I just kept having a Christmas tree going through my head, so I thought, well, let's let's just give this a go and try and doctor the words. So that's what we tried to do, and then we got a choir together, um, a wonderful choir together, so um it all came together.
SPEAKER_01So uh we'll give you the link for that because uh it would be great if you could watch it uh and pass it on to your Facebook friends or Twitter feed. Um you just simply go to revivalmedia.org slash o Christmas Tree, and that's O without the H. That's right. O Christmas Reader.
SPEAKER_05Not the letter not the number zero, but the the letter O. Okay. Yes. O Christmas tree.
SPEAKER_01Uh but also we've had uh you've had an a baby born.
SPEAKER_05Well, uh yes, the less exciting baby born is my book. Um so yeah, 321, the book is out, and it's it's a really beautiful little thing to hold in your hand. So Jeremy Poyner, who did the cover and the and the typesetting, did a fantastic job, and it's all nicely embossed, and uh it's very nice to hold in your hand. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say it's uh it's any good on the inside, you'll have to be the judge of that. But um yeah, it's great to hold and great to give away to a friend. So uh perhaps that's something you can uh purchase, buy it, read it, and pass it on. That's the idea.
SPEAKER_01Excellent. Uh and the actual baby.
SPEAKER_05The actual baby, yes, the scrivener baby is due uh goodness like in nine days' time, so um could come anytime. So uh yes, we're we're waiting. Our donkey is saddled, uh waiting to take us to Bethlehem uh for the birth of a less important baby, but for quite important to us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, excellent. Okay, well this time we're going to uh we're gonna play the music of the video, the background track to it. Um do go and watch it on uh revivalmedia.org slash o Christmas Tree. Um and as I say, do share it. Uh you can find the links to get the book as well, uh, and we'll we'll embed the video as well on this podcast page, which is revivalmedia.org slash TEP79. Uh and next week uh we're going to do uh you're gonna preach a sermon.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna preach a sermon from the past. Yeah. A little bit of a time machine. So uh yes, I'll I'll hopefully be off. Um not only with Christmas, but then with baby. And so uh yeah. So we'll we'll listen to a sermon of mine in the in the past, and hopefully that'll tide you over until the new year.
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's it for now. See you next time. Bye.
SPEAKER_02Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely all beginning, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, in forest water springing, then in the name of Christmas joy we seek your life to build this joy, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, now meet our hands swimming Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, with violet rose now felling, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, and from your own makes family, separate and soul rivers and rest, for love for all this int.
SPEAKER_04Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, rest from your made wedding Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, with every hunting, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, silver and gold raining with gentle trays to hide the ground, remove needles from the ground, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, the rotten branch is spraying vanity, humanity, a flesh and all plantation, vanity, a savage, no golden circle, no counting deeds and drinking spite for our family through the night vanity, all foreign tree destined for expiration the game of heaven, a promise.