Holy Days In A Holiday World (Part I with Pastor Allen Jackson)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The lights are up, the sales are relentless, and “Christmas” is everywhere—but is Jesus? In this special holiday episode, Mike Slater asks the question every serious Christian has to face: How do we celebrate the birth of the King when the culture has turned His day into a frenzy of consumerism, sentimentality, and mandatory cheer? From Black Friday to office parties, from “Happy Holidays” to the war-on-Christmas noise, Mike cuts through the tinsel to talk about what it really looks like to keep holy days in a holiday world—without becoming a Grinch, retreating to a bunker, or pretending the tension doesn’t exist. Practical, honest, and rooted in Scripture, this is Politics by Faith for the most wonderful—and most challenging—time of the year. This is part one of two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks to being here. Excited for today's special. It was called
0:05.0	Living Holy Days in a Holiday World. It's a great title. We live in a holiday world, but I want to live in a
0:12.3	holy day world. What does that mean? How do we do that? Here's our opening segment where we lay the
0:17.1	lay the groundwork, and then we talked with Pastor Alan Jackson. After this in our part two,
0:22.5	we talked with an expert on Nicholas, as in St. Nicholas, and then wrap up with Lee Strobel.
0:27.5	Enjoy.
0:35.6	America is the greatest country in the world.
0:38.0	Thanks for being.
0:38.5	Welcome to our special.
0:39.5	Today's special is about holy days in a holiday world.
0:45.1	I love this title.
0:46.2	A holiday world!
0:48.1	But how do we make these holy days?
0:52.0	What do we mean here?
0:52.7	So a holiday world, right?
0:53.9	Do you get what I mean by that?
0:54.9	Like this just worldly, materialistic, secular silliness? Like we used to be a serious
1:02.0	people where holidays were actually holy days. That's where we get the word holiday, holy day.
1:09.0	This hit me years ago, maybe four years ago with Halloween I felt so empty
1:14.3	and ridiculous and then I realized Halloween is actually all hollows Eve the day before all saints
1:24.3	day the day you celebrate the Christian martyrs of history. Hollow means to make sacred.
1:30.3	So all Hallows Eve, Halloween, we just threw it together.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The First Digital Inc., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The First Digital Inc. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.