Holy Days In A Holiday World (Part II with Lee Strobel & Pastor Josh Robinson)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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 two of two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Thanks to being. This is part two of our special about living holy days in a holiday world. We live in a holiday world. Cheap plastic
0:41.7	imitations of things that used to be Christian sacred holy days. How can we reclaim these things?
0:48.7	So let's start off our part two with an expert in Nicholas, as in St. Nicholas. And then we'll
0:53.8	wrap up with Lee Strobel.
1:00.8	Welcome back to our special here on the First TV,
1:03.7	Holy Days in a Holiday World.
1:06.8	I want to go to Pastor Josh Robinson.
1:09.1	He's the lead pastor at New Haven Church in West Virginia.
1:12.8	Pastor, how are you today?
1:14.5	I'm doing well.
1:15.4	Thanks so much for having me this morning.
1:17.5	I'm glad you're here.
1:18.2	So the St. Nicholas story, we have turned Santa Claus into the reason for the season
1:24.7	that you recently wrote a substack about Nicholas.
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