Thanks to the mods for the sticky. I watched this Christmas special every year when I was a child. It never failed to inspire me. Since then it seemed like Christmas was always in need of saving, to be plucked from the precipice in movies and on TV by some hero who struggles to rise to the occasion. But this is a human perspective that hopes in a thing hopeless people desperately want to be true, that somehow, someway we can save ourselves. No need for God to get involved, although Santa might come to help, giving the one who proved him or herself worthy a little metaphysical push. He might even leave presents for us when we are done.

But there is only one true Hero, the One who left heaven to become a man and share in our pain and sorrow. We were the ones who needed the saving. Those who don't know Him think it's just a story somebody made up, but millions who do know Him know that the story is real. They have directly experienced God's love and saving power in their lives, and there is only one name by which any of that happens.