Object: Small packets of restaurant salt.

Boys and girls, it is only a few more days until we have a birthday party. The best birthday party in the whole world. Do you know who is going to have a tremendous birthday party this week? That's right, Jesus was born and made it Christmas Day. Pretty important day for all of us, isn't it? Can you imagine how many people in the world are going to remember that day with a special kind of celebration? More than a billion people will remember Jesus with worship and almost everyone will know that this was the day on which Jesus of Nazareth was born.

I suppose you know that Jesus had a cousin named John the Baptist who was important to the world and to Jesus. John was a strange man by the way you and I think of people. He dressed a little differentl…