Welcome to the conversationsations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to take a little break today from Social Justice Controversy. How does that sound? That sounds good to me. I can't take too much of it. It's not good to have your mind always in those things. It's good to know about what's going on. It's good to do something if you can about what's going on because there's a lot of evil

on the march and it's marching very quick. I believe God is withdrawing his hand in

some ways from the United States including the churches here in the evangelical church and really from the whole west in general

and it's a sad thing to live through but we can't always be there because God's still at work even in the places in which he's withdrawing his hand

and there seems to be judgment there's still I think a sense in which God is

saving people God is still doing a lot of good things and we can't lose

sight of that and if you just walk outside and you look at the trees and the sun and everything that

God has blessed us with that we are undeserving of it

changes your perspective and so it's important that we not only focus on bad

things because there's a lot of bad things I get that we have to at some points. But we also have to talk about some good things. And I realize a lot of what I've done on this podcast has been exposing and helping Christians understand what's going on around them, culturally, politically, socially,

biblically, but at the same time I want to focus on some other things that are also going on that I think are positive or indicative of something positive.

And one of those is going to be what we're going to talk about today.

And that is as we approach Christmas, because Christmas is when the Hallmark channel is more

popular, right?

Everyone loves, actually a little story about this.

I was getting my haircut. this is over a year ago, and I, it was in, it was in upstate New York, I think. I was, I think I was home for the holidays or something, but maybe it was two years ago. Anyway I was getting my

haircut and the lady cutting my hair was she was dressed up as I recall in a festive

I don't know if she had a hat or she had something that indicated Christmas.

And I asked her, so what's your favorite Christmas film, right?

Which is actually, that's a good question to ask this time of year and it's a good way to get conversations started that could lead to

sharing the gospel sharing about the Bible inviting someone to church all of that so I

asked her what's your favorite Christmas movie and she started rattling off all these

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