Christmas Traditions with Howard Irick on this edition of Truth and Love.

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

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

Oh, this is one of my favorite times of year. This is actually one of my favorite

podcasts that we do all year. And it's become quite a Christmas tradition for us at ACBC

to involve one of our members that maybe many of you know and talk to them about some of their Christmas traditions.

And this week I have with me, Dr. Howard Iric.

He's a recent academy member.

Listen, I couldn't be more thrilled about Howard and Randy Patton this past year being inducted as an academy member of ACBC. What a well-deserved

thing. Their service to biblical counseling in general, the movement itself, and ACBC in particular,

and Howard is still very, very active in the work of ACBC as a fellow. He also teaches at

Birmingham Theological Seminary. He holds, as I mentioned earlier,

a D. Men degree, but he's also the director of their D.M. Program and the chair of their

master's program at Birmingham Theological Seminary. And he still serves and teaches there. Many of you

have taken courses with Howard through the years. And listen, I can't wait, Howard, to hear a little bit about Christmas

around the Iric household. Brother, let me just say, first of all, from all of us at ACBC,

we're grateful for you. We stand on the strength of shoulders of men just like you in the work

that you still continue to do. And we find ourselves grateful for you and your work so very often.

And it's a pleasure to have you with us on the podcast to talk about these Christmas traditions.

Well, thank you. Dale, it's good to be with you. And it's a joy in God's providence to be

in this movement from the very beginning and watch it grow, watch it to have its

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