Welcome to the Christmas episode of 30 minutes in the New Testament and 40 minutes in the Old Testament.

This podcast, of course, is a 1517 podcast network podcast.

You can go to 1517.org slash podcast and check out all the other podcasts that are living over there.

There's a couple podcasts living over there that has our guest on them.

Today we are joined by executive director, Scott Keith, who of course is one of those

fellows that does the thinking on the thinking fellows.

He's also on a podcast with me called Tough Text.

You should go check both of those out if you've

not done so. We are going to be talking about the birth of the greatest man who ever lived

according to Jesus. You thought I was going to say Jesus, but Jesus says the greatest man

who ever lived is John the Baptist. The humility't look at the humility on Jesus, right?

No one has ever been born that is greater than John.

And you're like, yo, weren't you born?

And the answer is yes, of course.

And it is it's Christmas time, and we could be talking about the birth of Jesus,

which we've done numerous times.

But we thought talking about the birth of the

forerunner, his cousin, John, would be good. So Chad, you see, the way this works is that

on 40 minutes, Chad's the reader, and on 30 minutes, Eric's the reader. On tough text, I'm the reader.

And that doesn't mean that we're going to make Scott be the reader.

I would say a little heads up would have been nice.

No, we're not doing that.

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