Welcome to Culture and Christianity. It's Thanksgiving weekend. This Sunday is the first Sunday of the Advent season. The four Sundays that precede Christmas have been celebrated in the Christian church for centuries as Advent, a very special time in the Christian calendar. We have prepared a little helpful tool for this Advent season for you and your family.

It's really a family book.

It's a 25-day devotional called Lead with Your Faith at Christmas.

Really intended for families, they're kind of their Christmas theme to devotionals.

Maybe good conversation starters for your family at the evening table or when you're together

with friends

for the holiday.

There's even some from games and some recipes.

We're really designed to try to help bring faith a little more front and center into your

family at Christmas.

I hope it's a blessing.

I'm sure they'll put it on the screen.

You can go to the website if you want the details.

You can get that.

My guest today, I'm really excited and introduced to you, Colonel Keith Isaacson, he's Israeli,

and he was responsible for a big part of the defense in the communities along the Gaza border

that suffered so grievously on October the 7th a couple of years ago.

So that horrendous terrorist attack is not theoretical to him.

Most of the men he led lost their lives that day.

I think his story will be a blessing to you.

I know Israel isn't, and the Jewish people are an increasingly controversial topic.

That's unfortunate. It's especially unfortunate that much of the hatred is coming, or at least

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