Invitation to festive joy

Glen Scrivener  |  Features  |  everyday evangelism
Date posted:  1 Dec 2023
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Invitation to festive joy

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Every year for the last 12, Speak Life has put out a Christmas video, or four.

We’ve made fun of Santa, and we’ve parodied Scrooge. We’ve put on a Down syndrome nativity, and we’ve made a time-travelling rom-com. We’ve viewed Christmas from heaven, from space, and from the Colosseum. We’ve seen it from the perspective of a Christmas tree, a Christmas present and a Christmas mouse. We’ve created animations with dragons, with snow globes, and with Happyland figurines. And last year, because it was the World Cup, our video was called ‘Christmas Coming Home’.

It was based on Baddiel and Skinner’s classic song: Football’s Coming Home. Picture the scene: a centurion hands around a scroll,

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