Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb, and I'm joined by Dr. Rod Rosenblot and Scott Keith today.

This is the episode that will air the weekend right before Christmas. So we're recording the week before Christmas right now, and this will go up Friday, the 20, what is that, the 22nd.

And so we're kind of doing something that listeners have asked for for a long time.

We're not spending an episode talking about the Christmas Day or Christmas story.

You know, everybody's pretty much familiar with that.

They're going to get it at church.

I hope that...

We probably should spend some time on it.

If you're familiar with, if you've read your Bible, you're at least familiar with that part.

It's like saying everybody's familiar with the gospel, right?

But today we're going to do something.

I've had probably at least 15 listeners say,

hey, this episode was great, but I didn't understand blank term that you used,

or what do you mean when you say this?

And across the spectrum.

And part of that is that we have more than one type of listener. We have people from across the spectrum of Christianity.

It's, you know, while we're all Lutheran,

not everybody listening to the podcast is Lutheran.

So sometimes we say things.

Good.

Yeah, really good, right?

Sometimes we say things that people might be familiar

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