TIL 548: Christmas Traditions (feat. Jacob Elwart)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
1. What are some of your favorite Christmas traditions?
2. What are some of the special ways that you guys celebrate Christmas?
3. What do Christmas eve and day look like with your family?
4. What are some of the key things that are comforting for you about the Incarnation?
5. What are some of the special meals that you have with one another?
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| 0:00.0 | Christmas traditions on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:15.6 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.2 | This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me for our Christmas traditions, Dr. Jacob |
| 0:25.2 | Elvert. |
| 0:26.0 | He's a pastor of discipleship ministries at Intercity Baptist Church in Allen Park, Michigan. |
| 0:31.2 | He also serves as assistant professor of biblical counseling at Detroit Baptist Theological |
| 0:35.3 | Seminary. |
| 0:36.4 | He is a certified member with ACBC. |
| 0:38.9 | He's a fellow, and he's a newly minted board member. |
| 0:41.4 | So grateful for this brother. |
| 0:42.4 | He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children and one grandchild. |
| 0:46.5 | Jacob, glad you're here today. |
| 0:48.2 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:49.1 | Really looking forward to talking about Christmas. |
| 0:50.9 | This is my favorite time of year, fall leading into the celebration of our |
| 0:56.3 | Lord, just such a wonderful time with family. I always love. We have certain traditions that we do, |
| 1:01.6 | and we love repeating these. We're in the middle of even doing some of these ourselves now, and |
| 1:07.7 | certain things that we're doing as it leads up to Christmas. It's always exciting. People do it |
| 1:12.2 | different ways. And I love to hear how other people celebrate this time of year. So I want to talk |
| 1:18.8 | just first really simple. What are some of your favorite Christmas memories? My favorite memories |
| 1:24.2 | from my childhood, all revolver on my family. My parents were saved out of Catholicism. |
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