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Here are some of the news headlines we're watching. When the time the conference was over, the president won a pledge. Americans worshipping government over God. An extremely rare safety moved by a nation. 17 years, the Palestinians of Israelis negotiated. We hear a lot of time. A very happy Friday to you.

Mr. Craig Partial is joining me today as he does on Fridays.

And what we do is we take a look at the headlines of the day, but we look at them from a markedly different perspective.

We put on our glasses, the lens of scripture. And we listen to what's being bought and sold in the marketplace of ideas to see whether or not it comes into alignment with the word

of God. Or if there's some component that God has already addressed in one of those ideas

working its way through the marketplace. We've got a lot of topics and we're going to dive right in.

But first, I just want you to tell you, I've had a delicious afternoon because I had been watching

live from the Royal Albert Hall, Keith and Kristen

Gettys Christmas concert entitled Home for Christmas. It is spectacular in a word. In fact, as I speak,

they are closing up the end of the concert and it started at 2.30 Eastern time. I tell you this,

because now you've got from now until January 1st to be able to watch it for yourself. Just go to Gettymusic.com. Gettymusic.com. The first half in their just absolutely irreplaceable style, they sang a wide variety of Christmas carols, poetry, dance music. Their four daughters got up on stage and sang,

which was wonderful. And then in the second half, which is why Keith joined us a week ago and

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