Hi, friend. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast, and I hope what you're about to hear will encourage, equip, edify, enlighten you, and we'll get you out there into that marketplace of ideas. But before you go, let me ask you to consider this month's Truth Tool. We're a listener-supported radio, and my Truth Tools are a way of saying thank you for your financial gift. And it is, after all, Christmas time. So I've chosen the book, The Joy of Jesus by Josh Moody.

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Thank you. the truth tool, the joy of Jesus. Now, please, enjoy the program. Oh, St. Nicholas, you're the one. We jump for joy whenever. Oh, so jolly, old St. Nicholas

passes by, spread in spirit with a twinkling eye old st. Nicholas overhead you hang a twig of merry

mistletoe and old St. Nicholas gay are we catch your kisses near the eutti tree how does it be in the

market with Janet partial in a very merry Christmas and why is it that we always associate St. Nicholas with Christmas?

And we think of him as being a character and a classic Christmas Eve.

But we forget that there really was a person known as St. Nicholas.

And that's what we're going to talk about this hour.

Who was this St. Nicholas?

Matt McIgolatos is with us. He is an award-winning author, a former missionary and pastor. He is the

author of God with us. He has written lots of fascinating books as far as I'm concerned, very

interesting topics. And we're going to dive

into why in the world he would get interested in St. Nicholas. Although, Matt, I have to tell you,

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