Does God know who will be saved or does he choose who will be saved?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez,

and this is the radio program where we answer your questions

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And Adriel, the studio, has a festive look today.

Yeah, we have a little Christmas tree in here that they set up.

I mean, that wasn't my doing, but it's pretty cool.

I mean, I'm all about the Christmas

decoration, so I know, Bill, you guys just put up a tree recently. Is that right? You know, we

actually went out and I cut down our own tree in a big Christmas tree farm and got an eight-footer

and took my saw to it and then dragged it to our Honda pilot, brought it home, and it's beautiful in our living room right now. Wow. Yeah, so we don't get to do that in San Diego. I mean, we don't get to cut down our own trees. They're already cut for you. I wouldn't even know what, what or how to do that. I think I'd end up hurting someone. So, but that's pretty awesome. Eight foot.

That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, my wife will never, my wife will never go for one less than eight feet. She goes, it has to almost touch the ceiling. Oh, wow. So, but we have a really cool, uh, little angel that goes on top of our tree. It's a beautiful, I guess the best way to describe it is a little female figurine.

It's supposed to be an angel with a little white dress on it. And it lights up. My mom, who's

passed away, bought that for me many years ago. And so it's just kind of a remembrance of her.

Oh, well, that's wonderful. I think that, I mean, isn't that a cool thing?

I was just thinking about our tree and some of the ornaments that we have, you know, dating back to when my wife and I were first married, and then every year our kids will pick one ornament.

It's just neat to look at the tree and each ornament sort of brings back a memory of someone or something.

And I think that's so cool. Pretty neat Christmas traditions.

I love doing that. And we have those for our kids as well for each year of life and something significant in their lives.

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