But oftentimes people complain about, man, holidays are so commercialized.

And guess what, Hallmark has not gotten a hold of any of these holidays, as far as I know.

Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast.

Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.

Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke,

and we can't wait to chat about all things family. What's up, guys, Jeff and Jeremy here.

Today we're talking about celebrating the festivals of faith. I love this conversation. I love this topic.

I want Jeremy to speak mostly on this from experience and wisdom. But one thing I'll say,

which is interesting, is I bet if you're listening,

if you're a common Western Protestant Christian, even sell as saying talking about the biblical

holidays probably made you either cringe or immediately put on your skeptical glasses, right?

You're kind of like, ooh, I don't know about that. That seems legalistic. That seems this,

right? And the first thing before Jeremy talks that I'll say is, do we realize how non-consistent that is

with our own holidays, right? Just that feeling alone you just maybe had is interesting because we never

even do that with our own holidays, right? We embrace Christmas and Easter and all these other holidays without

even thinking twice man-made ones, but yet we're all of a sudden skeptical the minute it's

actually from the Bible. Like, doesn't that seem weird to anyone else? That seems weird to me.

But yeah, Jeremy, what would you say about this? Yeah, so do you have to celebrate the biblical

holidays? No, you do not. It's very clear in the New Testament. You don't have to. Paul says that in Colossians chapter 2. Let no one judge you according to what days you keep. And you don't have to celebrate cultural holidays or Christian holidays either. However, I love this conversation because one of the

things that I'm constantly asking as a father is how might I better immerse my kids in the story?

What kinds of things, tools am I given to help story my children so that they will have faith in the gospel. And man,

like holidays are awesome at this. I mean, this is what they are for. And so I just find this

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