The Reality of Christmas in Bethlehem with the Chappells (week of Dec. 19, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode the Chappells recount spending Christmas in Bethlehem, and what they learned from shepherds and songs and stars in the place where it happened. These things lead to a discussion of how these things apply in our lives and how we can better understand Christ.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and our editor, Alexia Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | This is the podcast where we talk about things that have made the scriptures become more real to us because we think that helps us supply them to our lives better and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm excited for today's episode. |
| 0:25.3 | I think it's going to be so much fun. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm introducing and having with us two of my longest friends, Wayne and Nancy Chapel. |
| 0:35.5 | I've known Wayne a little longer than Nancy. I think we met in fourth grade, |
| 0:39.0 | Wayne. Wayne was the pun master that impressed me even in fourth grade. He was telling dad jokes even |
| 0:45.9 | then. And we have been just the best friends ever since, roommates in college. And then we've moved to California at similar times and our kids |
| 0:56.6 | are similar ages. We've just stayed close ever since. Nancy was one of my, I think we used to |
| 1:01.6 | call them family home evening sisters. I don't think that that's what they call them anymore, |
| 1:05.1 | but that's what they're called then. And she and Wayne started dating and they were the first of |
| 1:09.7 | our tight little group to get married, |
| 1:11.5 | and we forgave Nancy for that. |
| 1:13.9 | Poor Nancy actually had to put up with us because right after they got married, |
| 1:18.1 | we moved into a different house, |
| 1:19.3 | and Wayne and Nancy moved into the basement of that apartment. |
| 1:22.4 | She had to put up with us as trying to draw Wayne away. |
| 1:26.9 | But anyway, we've been friends for a long time. And |
| 1:30.6 | Wayne is, I could say all sorts of things about Wayne, but I guess just professionally |
| 1:37.1 | he works for a VP of something or other and something and something for Johnson and Johnson. |
| 1:43.1 | And Nancy is a substitute seminary teacher, |
| 1:45.4 | but mostly they're just great guys. And they came one of the years we were in Jerusalem |
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