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Hey, folks, I'm sitting here with a book.

The title is Christmas, The Rest of the Story.

I don't know about you, but when somebody says the rest of the story, it, of course,

piques my interest, P-I-Q-U-E, C-Q-U-E, it piques my interest. Christmas, the rest of the story.

Fortunately, I have as my guest right now the author of Christmas, the rest of the story.

Rick Renner is his name. He lives in Moscow, Russia. He's coming to us from Moscow, Russia. He's a broadcaster. He's a pastor. He's a best-selling author. Rick, welcome to the program. It's good to be with you, Eric. Well, first of all, it really does pique my interest. When somebody has this beautiful book all about Christmas, but it says the rest of the story, I've just got to ask you, why did you write this book? What is in this book that we don't find in a lot of those other Christmas books that we might pick up? Well, Eric, I studied this story for years and years, and I was tired of hearing the same thing year after year after year, and particularly as a pastor, every year. I was thinking it's the same story every year.

So I began to dive deep to really study a lot of early Christian writers history and just really dove deep.

I plunged into what is in between the verses about the Christmas story.

And what I found is just amazing.

It is amazing.

And that's why I call it Christmas the rest of the story.

And when you really understand all the pieces of the puzzle, only God himself could have written

this narrative. It is just amazing. Well, tell us some of these things, so our interest isn't

merely peaked, but it's further peaked. Tell us, I mean, for example, you say why God

chose Mary and Joseph, the significance of the manger and the swaddling clothes.

I mean, I've heard these things over the years.

What are some of the things that you focus on?

Well, example for Mary.

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