One Solitary Life at the Heart of Christmas

On July 11,1926, a Baptist preacher stood before a congregation of mostly younger Christians assembled in the Baptist Young People’s Union in Los Angeles and delivered a sermon with three simple words for a title.

James Allan Francis was the preacher and “One Solitary Life” was the title of a sermon that captured the miraculous significance of the life of Jesus Christ even today, two thousand years after His brief life.

Francis concluded his words with this observation:

“I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one solitary life.”

The following short video was produced by the John 10:10 Project to memorialize the Francis sermon that, while originally delivered in July, is even more fitting for the present season of Christmas:

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