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Oh, my.

Oh, my. Oh, wow. Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts, Todd Hamans.

Hello.

My name is Matt Mollins. We are two friends and two ministers who love the stories of the Bible,

and we can't wait to share another one with you. Today, Todd, we are in our Christmas series.

We talked week one about setting the stage for Christmas and the anticipation waiting for it.

Week two, the heavenly announcements to Zechariah, to Joseph and to Mary.

And now, week three, Todd, we're talking about the birth, the main event.

That's right.

That's right, man.

I love it.

We've been talking about the coming of the Messiah in all of the details to get there.

And now we're here.

We're going to meet the Messiah Jesus.

Matt, it is Christmas time.

It is the best time of the year.

We've talked a little bit about some of our favorite things.

Candies or traditions.

Is there anything else that you're just like, man, I love to experience this. So I live in North Dallas. You live in Texas too. And there's a place called Grapefines, a little city near the airport. It's the Christmas capital of Texas. That's what they call it. That's what they call it. And they do all sorts of fun things. I feel like when you were here, you and I have been friends for so long, in my mind you were here a long time. You really weren't. You used to live in grapevine. I lived in grapevine. You lived in the Christmas capital of Texas. You were there year round. My goodness. And I feel like during that time you were there that you and I, we may have done a thing or two down there. We might have walked down the sidewalk. Down the sidewalk. Taking a stroll together and enjoying some lemonade. That's right. Now, did you ever, do you take the polar, when you live there, did you take the Polar Express to work? Or how did you? Yeah, good question. Very fair. So they do have, they have a train in Great Find and they do it like the Polar Express during Christmas time. But you have to like get your tickets the second that that thing opens up on their website. What's fascinating is if you watch the technology in the movie of Polar Express and there's glossy eyes, the characters, as you're writing, they all have glossy eyes as well. And they're just staring at you like through through your souls. It's a little scary. It's a little Halloweeny. Yeah, but you know what? We're not here to talk about glossy eyes. We're going to talk about sweet eyes. Uh-huh. Is that that good? Angel eyes? I don't know. Okay, that's closer. Which is also a very popular song from the 80s. Hey, today we are going to talk about the birth of Jesus. In fact, I will tell you that. Quick pause. In my head, I was singing hungry eyes, not angel eyes. Hungry eyes. Yeah. And I just realized it's not right.

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