CHRISTMAS 2025 | THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON

Speaker: Pastor Tristan Sherwin

'Speaking honestly, I’ve never seen a nativity play that looked like this! I’ve seen donkeys and cows… even pirates, giraffes and aliens in nativity plays. I’ve even seen (up close) a shepherd get aggressive with Joseph.

But I’ve never seen a conflict between a Baby and a Dragon.

Even the Gospel’s don’t tell us the nativity story in this fashion. When we read how these events unfolded within history, they don’t look as dramatic as this.

Imagine they were movies, playing in the same cinema, and you had to choose between watching a cosmic battle between a child and a dragon or a film about two peasants travelling to a quiet village to have a baby who is visited by shepherds and later some wise men. Which storyline sounds more dramatic?

Yet Revelation insists they are the same story.

To be clear, the quiet, unimpressive scenes of the Nativity (and up to the Resurrection) are what the cosmic battle of Revelation 12 looked like in history.'

Tristan shares his full sermon notes on his own blog. You can read the full message here: CHRISTMAS 2025 | THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON