Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 15th.

Gratitude for salvation shouldn't naturally pour out of a believer's life in all kinds

of ways.

Today's podcast highlights the overflow of joy that produces a passion to proclaim him.

What do you like to talk about most?

Is it your wife, your husband, your children, your vocation, your hobby, politics?

What is the subject that excites you most of all?

Well, does the name Jesus Christ surface automatically in your conversations?

Or do you sort of have to work at that?

Are you one of those persons who is a little bit embarrassed about talking about Jesus?

And so, therefore not to hurt other people's feelings and to make them uncomfortable.

You just don't say anything about him.

Let me ask you this.

How could you and I keep so quiet about someone who was crucified for our sins, who has

forgiven us all of our sins, who was risen from the dead to give us hope that we'll be

resurrected, who indwelled us in the very presence of a Holy Spirit, who answers our prayers,

who walks with us day by day and on and on and on we could go.

It seems to me that somehow Jesus ought to be our favorite subject.

That is, he should continue to be upon our mind and very frequently upon our lips.

That's what I want to talk about in this message.

A passion to proclaim Him.

And if you'll turn to Colossians chapter 1, the Apostle Paul was a man with a passion

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