Friday, December 19, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the shock of Christmas, and he answers questions about his favorite Christmas hymns, a right honoring of Mary, if Mary was a perpetual virgin, and Christmas and the regulative principle.
Part I (00:30 – 05:17)
What are Your Favorite Christmas Hymns? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part II (05:17 – 11:34)
What About Santa Claus? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
- “And They Went With Haste” by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
What is the Best Protestant Understanding of Mary? And Was She a Perpetual Virgin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (15:29 – 21:17)
How Does Christmas Fit Into the Regulative Principle of Worship? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (21:17 – 27:04)
‘The Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us’: The Shock of Christmas
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 19, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | This is the last edition of the briefing before we go into the Christmas holidays. And we're going to do things just a little bit differently. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm going to go to questions first, and then we'll end with some thoughts concerning Christmas |
| 0:27.1 | Advent, and we'll focus our thoughts accordingly. |
| 0:30.5 | But right now, let's just turn to questions. |
| 0:32.4 | You know, Christmas brings up all kinds of questions. |
| 0:34.9 | The celebration of the church, not to mention the confusion of the culture, it raises all kinds of questions. The celebration of the church, not to mention the confusion of the culture, |
| 0:38.2 | it raises all kinds of questions. |
| 0:41.2 | And there's some really sweet questions that were sent in. |
| 0:43.9 | A listener wrote about hymns. |
| 0:46.9 | And by the way, this kind listener |
| 0:48.8 | had been reading through my Christmas devotional book |
| 0:51.0 | recapturing the glory of Christmas. |
| 0:53.3 | And she noted that I put Christmas |
| 0:54.9 | Hems incorporated into the text and into the book. And she asked the question, what are my |
| 1:00.5 | favorite Christmas Hems? What a sweet question? And I'll just say, number one, I love the Advent and |
| 1:07.2 | Christmas Hems. I love the declaration of the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:11.6 | I also love the theme of joy that is so resounding. It reminds us that the Declaration of the Angels |
| 1:19.3 | Unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord. That is just the |
| 1:23.7 | most astounding statement that human ears can ever hear. It's the dividing point in all |
| 1:29.4 | of human history between the before and the after. It is the declaration of the best good news that |
| 1:35.3 | human beings could hear. And that's one of the reasons why I think, oh, come all you faithful, |
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