John Bytheway: Finding Joy This Holiday Season
All In
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A lot goes on in between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but in the midst of cooking and shopping, are we taking time to reflect on the cause for our celebrations or the source of joy that we feel? Do we stop to think about the Christ child who became the Savior of the world? On this week’s episode, John Bytheway explores the miracle of Jesus Christ and why that miracle can bring us joy regardless of our age—and even in the midst of a pandemic.
"We know the source of joy. We know where to go for that. And that's why we're all in."
Show Notes:
1:58- Young Men general board
3:28- Why a Christmas book?
4:50- Covid and Christmas
7:11- The Three Levels of Christmas
11:29- Allowing Christ to Grow With Us
13:15- “That They ‘Might’ Have Joy”
19:55- Joseph- A Nearly Anonymous Giver
23:18- “It’s a Wonderful Life”
28:23- “All Is Well”
31:03- Christmas Memories
36:19- What Does It Mean To You To Be “All In” the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | It's a wonderful life and the grinch that stole Christmas are pop culture staples at Christmas time |
| 0:06.2 | But are there important gospel lessons to be learned from George Bailey and Sam Wainwright? |
| 0:12.0 | What about the Grinch and Cindy Luhu and how might we need these lessons this year even more than ever? |
| 0:20.0 | John by the way served a mission to the Philippines and later graduated from Brigham Young University |
| 0:25.4 | He has a master's degree in religious education and was recently called to serve on the Young Men General Board |
| 0:33.0 | John is the author of many best-selling books, audio talks and DVDs including how to be an extraordinary teen |
| 0:40.7 | Life rocks and his first Christmas book which is out this year titled Born This Happy Morning |
| 0:46.6 | He and his wife Kimberly have six children |
| 0:49.4 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In the gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 0:59.4 | I'm Morgan Jones and I am so excited to have John by the way on the line with me today John welcome |
| 1:05.4 | Thank you. It's good to be with you |
| 1:07.9 | Well, this is such a treat for me. I told I mentioned this to John before we ever got started |
| 1:13.3 | But I grew up every night listening to cassette tapes of his voice and so this is like my life coming full circle in this moment |
| 1:23.6 | cassette those were those were kind of indestructible. I mean say what you want |
| 1:28.7 | But they last longer than CDs these days, sorry and now the kids don't know what a CD is |
| 1:34.4 | Exactly and and the I will say the audio cassette tapes they weren't indestructible because you could get the |
| 1:41.6 | A tape and get it all out |
| 1:43.6 | Oh, yeah, yeah, and my brother would do that and it was not good |
| 1:49.2 | It was not a good situation in our house when he got a hold of my cassette tapes |
| 1:53.2 | But seriously this is so exciting for me and I I just first of all I want to congratulate you |
| 1:59.6 | I guess congratulations is the word on your calling in the on the young men general board |
| 2:04.7 | I wondered what are you most excited about with that new calling John? |
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