Someone has collected a list of Fatal Things to Say to Your Pregnant Wife. Let me list 7 of them for the benefit of the young couples in our congregation. Seven fatal things to say to your wife when she is with child:

Number 7: "I finished the Oreos."

Number 6: "Y'know, looking at her, you'd never guess that Pamela Lee had a baby!"

Number 5: "Well, could they induce labor? The 25th is the Super Bowl."

Number 4: "Whoa! For a minute there, I thought I woke up next to Willard Scott!"

Number 3: "I'm jealous! Why can't men experience the joy of childbirth?"

Number 2: "Are your ankles supposed to look like that?" and the Number 1 Fatal Thing to Say to Your Pregnant Wife . . .

"You don't have the guts to pull the trigger."

Let's look for a few moments at the Christmas story. It is a story…