Hi friends, welcome. It's my favorite time of the podcast year. It is our second annual Christmas party.

Last year was a really big deal because it's what kicked us off doing new episodes every single Thursday. This year

It's just some of my very favorite guests some surprises some things you don't know we're coming

It's gonna be quite a party you guys so buckle up and settle in

I love the Christmas music in the background. Hey, this episode is brought to you by the CSB Bible

Which is really an amazing translation that kind of takes some of the like faithfulness of the original languages

But the readability for a modern audience and I am really excited about it

In fact our guest today from she reached truth and he reached truth the she reached truth Bible is in CSB

That is the translation and I absolutely love it

I keep one at the table beside me when I'm reading in the mornings

It is a beautiful

translation. It's accurate, but it's easy to read and it's really one that you can be confident teaching from as well as like reading on your own if you

Use the Bible that way you can find out more at csbible.com and also on December 1st

We will be having a giveaway on my blog for a CSB Bible

So make sure you head to any fdowns.com backslash blog for that giveaway

We're giving you lots of stuff today on that podcast you guys. You are gonna be excited about it for the second year in a row

Our friends from she reached truth with the addition of

Russ Ramsey who is from she reads and he reached truth have come into the studio for us to talk about advent every

Few days it feels like one of you guys tweets me and says that you hope we get to hear from them again

And so asking you shower see friends in more ways than one because if you will recall last year on the advent episode

We asked them or maybe it was on the lit episode we asked for a cross stitch pattern and you just stay tuned you guys stay tuned

So today on the podcast to kick off our

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