Christmas Traditions with John Street on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical

solutions for the problems that people face. And this time of year is so amazing. I love this time

of year where we have moved into the fall and now we're celebrating Christmas. What a fun time

of year. And last year I had the opportunity,

my wife and I, summer, to share some of our Christmas traditions. And what a fun thing we get to do

to share some of these Christmas traditions. And this year, we have the chairman of our board,

Dr. John Street, who's joining me on the podcast to describe

some of his Christmas traditions.

John, welcome, so thankful that you're here to share with us some of these significant times

in your own household.

Thank you, Dale.

It is an amazing time of the year.

Now, as you think about Christmas traditions, were there any types of

special events or things, you know, not just on Christmas Day, but even leading up to maybe

the month of December or post- Thanksgiving that you guys tried to do consistently as a family?

That's a really good question. As I look back upon our years in pastoral ministry,

I pastored several years in Ohio, and our kids were much younger at that particular time.

There were certain things that we would do with our local church there, and they're very fond memories.

One of them was the fact that we would every year host the elders and their wives in our

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