The 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 is 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 is 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.

See, you thought I was going to say Jesus,

but Jesus says the greatest man who ever lived

is John the Baptist.

The humility on Jesus, right?

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

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

And the answer is yes, of course.

And 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 I'm 40 minutes, Chad's the reader,

and on 30 minutes, Eric's the reader.

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