Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast.

It is the last day of 2025.

It is the evening of the last day of 2025.

We just have a few more hours left, and I'm in Eastern Time.

So some of you actually have already experienced this, but we will be in 2026.

And what a year it's been?

I was reflecting on mostly political, social things, a little bit of personal things as well

and just thinking how fast time goes.

And Psalm 90 is the Psalm.

My dad, when he does the New Year's service, always cites.

And so I think about it every year that our days are

numbered. And we live 70, if by strength, 80 years, but we have to number our days, our days

prioritize our time, live in a way that shows that we actually believe life is a breath. We redeem the time. The days are

evil. The days are still evil. The days are always evil. There's also good, though. There's also so

many things that we can reflect on and realize the hand of God has been with us, the blessings of God.

And this year's no exception. So I want to talk about a few

things. I'm going to just broadly give you two categories here, maybe three, so three categories here.

Number one, I felt the need to do this for the sake of encouragement, especially for you who are

conservative politically, which I think a lot of this audience is,

you are evangelical Christians who care about Orthodox, biblical theology, but that translates

into generally also caring about the political climate and resisting the innovations of the left.

And there's a lot of discouragement and black

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