Hello and welcome to Bible Stories.

We are your hosts, Matt Mullins.

Hello.

And my name is Todd Heymans, and we're two ministers slash buds who love telling the stories of the Bible.

And my goodness, Matt, Merry Christmas.

I'm so excited to share this time with you and with our listeners.

Merry Christmas to you, Todd.

Thank you.

What does Merry Christmas mean, Matt?

Mary is joy, right?

Good cheer.

Yeah.

Christ Mass.

Christ First Advent.

So happy first Advent. Let's say that from now on. Happy first

Advent. Yeah. People are really going to understand that. That's going to be great. It's really going to take off. How has your season been so far? You know, it's been really good, really fun. The kids are getting a little bit older. They're really recognizing all the

fun Christmas events. Our church has some fun things, like a big Christmas tree lighting for our

community and a fun Christmas concert and lots of great things, church activities. Plus,

the town we live in, people are, they really love decorating for Christmas.

So we've, what's one of my favorite things right now?

We don't go every night, but, you know, a couple nights a week in the month of December.

We load up the old car and go, go looking at Christmas lights and the kids enjoy it.

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