Nancy DeMas Walgamuth has good news for you.

I want to tell you there is not a thing you or I could ever do to placate the wrath of God.

But the gospel, the good news, the message we celebrate here at Christmas is that we don't have to.

It's been done.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For December 22nd, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Have you ever made plans with your kids and gotten them all excited?

Only to feel so bad when things didn't work out in your schedule and you had to cancel.

When it comes to keeping promises, God is a lot better than we are. In fact, on Friday, we celebrated a promise God finally delivered on. It was a promise he made back in the Garden of Eden. We explored that in the series, Zachariah's hymn. Here's Nancy to pick up on that series and tell us more.

I'm sure that your life is very busy right now, probably a lot going on in your home,

but I am trusting that in the midst of it all, you are taking time to stop, to pause,

to reflect on what this is all about.

And we're trying to help you do that this week and this past week and the week ahead on Revive Our Hearts by meditating on one of the great hymns of Scripture found in Luke

Chapter 1.

Hope that you're reading along with us, meditating on it, perhaps memorizing it.

It's a hymn, we call it, that was spoken by Zachariah, the priest in Luke 1, verse 67 through 79.

He spoke it at the eight-day birthing party of his son, John, who would be John the Baptist,

who would grow up to be the forerunner of Christ, the Messiah.

Six months later, Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.

So that's why we're airing this series at this time of year, because there's so much in this

passage that helps us understand why Christ was born, why he came to earth. And we're looking

at some of the great themes of redemption and salvation that surface in this passage. Let me read beginning in verse 68.

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