Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Here's the podcast from Middays with Susie Larson.

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Welcome, welcome to Middays.

I'm Sizzy Larson.

So honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's Word,

and it heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Emmanuel, God is with us. Isn't that the best

news ever? Well, a very Merry Christmas Eve to you, and I really do pray you since his presence

this holiday season like never before. We've been doing something so cool as a staff, and I think

of over 100 listeners have joined us.

We just sort of loosely issued the invitation.

Hey, we're reading through the Gospel of Luke this month, a chapter a day.

If you want to join us, you can.

And it was just kind of a low, you know, just we didn't push that really hard.

But we still had, I think, maybe 150 people say, count me in.

Going through this gospel with fresh eyes has been

so incredibly rich. And my guest today has unearthed some very rare treasures in the gospel as well.

The title of his book is The Characters of Christmas, The Unlikely People Caught Up in the Story of

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