TIL 394: Christmas Traditions with Randy Patten
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
1. Favorite Christmas Memories
2. How the Patten family prepares their hearts for the Christmas season.
3. Gatherings on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
4. Keeping the incarnation and Christ's coming to Earth central during Christmas
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| 0:00.0 | Christmas traditions on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.5 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:21.8 | Today on the podcast I have with me, Randy Patton, and for many of you who have been around |
| 0:27.7 | ACBC for quite some time, Randy is no stranger to you. He's the president of Team Focus |
| 0:33.5 | Ministries, an organization that seeks to increase the discipleship effectiveness of evangelical |
| 0:38.8 | Christians and churches through public proclamation of Scripture and private coaching. |
| 0:43.8 | Previously, he served 16 years as the executive director of the National Association of |
| 0:49.4 | New Thetit Councilors, which we all know is now called ACBC, and he was the founding board member of the |
| 0:56.9 | Biblical Counseling Coalition. Randy, listen, I'm looking forward to this conversation. Every time |
| 1:01.8 | we get together, I enjoy our time together, and I think this will be a fun one. Brother, welcome to the |
| 1:06.4 | podcast. Thank you, Dale. It's great to be a part of ACBC, and I rejoice in how God's leading the organization and it's prospering under your wise leadership. God bless you. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you, brother. I really appreciate that. I always tell people it's exciting for us. We stand on shoulders of men just like you, and we're able to pick some of the fruit that you guys labored |
| 1:29.2 | so hard for for so many years. And I'm so grateful for that. Today, we want to talk about Christmas |
| 1:34.7 | traditions. And this is something that he started that I did not want to let go. I love this time of |
| 1:41.9 | year. This is one of my favorite times of year with my family. And I want to talk to |
| 1:46.6 | you about some of the Christmas traditions, Randy, that you all do in the Patton family. I want to |
| 1:51.5 | first start with, think about maybe one of the neatest or most memorable moments of your childhood |
| 1:58.7 | around Christmas and part of what makes it so special to you. |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah, I grew up in southeastern Ohio, and I'm the oldest of four children. |
| 2:08.4 | We lived in a small home that my dad built right after I was born. |
| 2:14.9 | So I've always been a bit of an early riser. And on Christmas mornings, sometimes I would |
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