The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S01-E93 | 12-13-23

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

The Hope Hotline | S01-E93 | 12-13-23

Welcome to Wednesday's podcast. I'm going to pre-warn everybody. I am fiery today. I'm coming out of the gate like, I don't know, a little spicy. I got a little spice in my, my whatever you call it. I've been giving the girls an earful over there. You look beautiful. Look at you. Look at you. Look how beautiful you look with your green and the Christmas.

I'm not feeling beautiful. I'll be honest with you. I'm feeling like the Wicked Witch of the West. Oh, my gosh. But I have, like, what's the good witch? Glenda. What is it? Glenda.

But I'm Glenda because I'm righteous in my anger. Yeah. Two things today. Okay today sent me right over the edge. And one happened just before the podcast. And I told the girls, I said, it's a good thing I drank my Red Bull after I wrote the email. Because, oh, my goodness. Spicy. Yeah, spicy. So let's just do your thing. Let's do it. Because, oh my goodness. Spicy. Yeah, spicy. Spicy.

So, let's just do your thing. Let's do it. Tracy, you get going first because the girl needs to take her down some notches. I got a lot of stuff. So, let's get started. We've got our like, share, and subscribe on all of our social platforms. So, we got Facebook, Rumble, YouTube, and Blackrobe. Apparently there was an issue with Rumble last week, but we, not necessarily the Hope Hotline,

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And we still will have our Sunday morning service as always. We are going to show this one real quick, but remember, you have to be coming to our church. Foundation Church Kids, we still have about 15, 20-ish spots, but those could go quickly. So registered. Yeah, there's not, there's like I'm over the limit right now. Um, but those could go quickly. So registered. There's not, there's like, I'm over the limit right now. Right. Exactly. But I'm squeezing. Yes, we've got, we're making room a little bit more room. So if you haven't signed up again, not just your children, because this is not a drop-off event and you have to join your kids, but we also want to make sure that you are provided the food as well. So just make sure you tell us the total amount of people.

And again, that is coming up December 16th. Is there a last day? Are we closing it? That they can register? Or is it like, please do it fast? Probably it'll be closed out on Friday. Okay. So I can make sure.

But yeah. Okay. I mean, I don't, I'm not too worried about it being it's just like heather scared the duty out of me because she's like talking about walk-ins and i'm thinking walk-ins are going to be parents with their kids that didn't sign up because i can think of a few who only sign their kids up yeah and she's like no people who might just walk in and i'm like i mean i thought it was abundantly clear so i just say she's only but whatever now I'm nervous I'm a nervous nanny over here it'll be like the fish feeding the 5,000 um okay also I'll have plenty of food you just might be sitting on the floor oh okay well hey

that's I'll share my seat you haven't even signed up I know I haven't. I'm not. Gosh, what are you talking about? You're one of the ones I'm thinking of. Listen, I'm not eating. I've got lots of work to do. I have a very, very strict boss. Your child's eating. Your husband's eating. Well, I don't know if my husband is.

What? I don't know what Jara's doing. I don't know if Jara's even going to make it. It'll definitely be. Allison will definitely be there dressed to the nine. But I will be working very hard. I'll sign up today. That is true okay we'll talk about me signing up uh okay christmas special mr pastor tom likely will be joining us again i'm very excited for this especially because he loves christmas he he's

not really excited about it i'm gonna be honest with you i was trying to talk into being happy about this yesterday okay listen last night what He always tries to talk him into being happy about this yesterday. No. Okay, listen. Last night. What can we do to make him more excited? There's nothing. Nothing? When he gets here, he'll be fine. He'll have the time of his life.

But up to the moment, he's like, do you really need me? Yes, I do need you. Yeah, we have a graphic. Yeah, I'm like, it's in stone now, dude. I'm sorry. We're going to have to come to you. You can't go back, it's in stone now, dude. I'm sorry. We're going to have to come to you. You can't go back. All right.

He can't turn back time. No, you can't. Share. There's a graphic. It's there. All right. So make sure you join us for that. It will be a fun time.

We got our questions that we need you guys to keep sending in. And then we are moving to Hope's Favorite Things. We have had all of these amazing Hope's Favorite Things. We have had all of these amazing Hope's Favorite Things. We have had the chocolate stampede that you have to get when you get the Longhorn Steakhouse gift card. The Gold Bond neck cream. Which I need more of.

I'm almost down to nothing. Maybe you can share it back with Hope. Maybe you can re-gift it to Hope. We got the Hope Hotline mug. We've got the amazing Bus City Soap Coconut Body Butter and coconut flavor. And we've got the

Thrive Cosmetic Liquid Lash Extension Mascara. And it is an amazing product. I have tried it myself. Do you like it? I do. I do like it. I wish I had yours and Norma's eyelashes, though, because yours are, like, thick. You know, mine are long, so it makes it look long, but I need them, like, thicker.

You and Norma have, like, amazing eyelashes. You have seen Naz's? Yeah, that's true. Hers are, like, she looks at you and you think you're looking at Bambi's mother. Yeah, that's true. Like, could you not? Sarah. Go ahead. That's mother. Yeah, that's true. Like, could you not? Go ahead. That's good. Okay. And also I have tried this and it is very good and it has great ingredients as well. So if you like chocolate peanut butter, I'm telling you, it's really good. Great for a dessert. All right. So

let me pull up our old one so we can see what we've got today and it is of course the multi-purpose spoon and if you don't know what the second purpose for this amazing cooking spoon is you can send us an email and we will give you instructions you can meet me on sunday morning there too verbal. You can meet me on Sunday morning. And nobody can be there to confirm or deny. If it's two parties, it's one word against the other. That's true. You have a third party there. It's your word and their word and the other person's word.

Okay. I'm going to change that copy. Married to a cop. That's true. I'm going to have you meet Logan on Sunday if you'd like to know what the purpose of this is. Logan will give you a little lowdown. She knows the lowdown. She's a cop.

She's ready. She knows what she can and cannot say. She does. Very careful over here at the whole pot line. So if you haven't figured it out yet, maybe don't even meet us and maybe that's for the best. All right. And then every podcast you have to listen for the secret word. It will lead to a phrase and the phrase you'll have to send it to me. As soon as you get the final word, you can email it to askhope at hopehotline.com. And we will be able to pull your name and whoever else has all of the words and okay all the words and then we will put your name in and we will draw

and whoever gets drawn from the winning or from the names you will win the entire basket of hope's favorite things and we have a little announcement there'll be no podcast this friday no one jump off a cliff i know or a ledge If you need to work through this. There will be no hot pot line. I know that's devastating for most. It is. It is. So if you need to work through this, you can send me an email and we will work through this together.

But we will be back. Some people watch this at work. Okay. This is their lifeline. I know this in my heart, even though no one has told me this to confirm or deny. But I just know in someone's world, they may be the most insane individual we've ever met. But in someone's world, this is their lifeline. And they might not be able to handle us not being here on Friday.

In my mind, I'm like, okay, I have to give birth on Friday because I don't have the podcast. And then I'll have Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and then I can be back Wednesday. There you go. Oh, my gosh. You know what, Logan? You know what I love about that? Is you're thinking selflessly. She is. You're thinking of me.

You're thinking of someone else other than yourself. God bless you, child. I appreciate that. my god but if you if you're gone who do we have is talia gonna be sitting there making comment talia raised her hand talia's gonna be making little comments talia's taking pictures right now so nobody can see her but she's gonna be here sitting in that little warm seat commenting and replying back so no harsh comments to tell you yeah if something's misspelled she's homeschooled just remember that and my kids were homeschooled too so i'm not gonna oh my gosh today norma went to go sign something yeah she's done everything on the computer all

her life since third grade right like yeah never once i mean she took handwriting and stuff like that but like and i think very briefly cursive very briefly right but you don't write anymore well i guess even in public school they don't really write anymore correct yeah ipad okay so everything's so today she had to do her signature for a witness thing for somebody, for notary. And her signature, I mean, she's got cute little handwriting. But I'm like, the poor child doesn't even know how to give a signature. Like, they don't do that anymore in homeschool. I mean, well, some homeschools do.

But I didn't. Everything was on the computer. You did it on a computer, right? Right. And if I had to add one more task to the day I might have killed somebody so so cursive was not going to be in there yeah they'll figure it out just get me through it see and she figured it out kidding listen you know what I love I absolutely did love homeschooling I it was it was probably the toughest thing that I ever did as far as my kids were well-behaved.

Like, I didn't, I mean, Tommy, Tommy was a task to a certain degree. And Norma was always going to the bathroom, had sweaty hands, and needed a drink. Like, if there was the greatest staller on the face of the earth, it was her. Like, she hated it. So whatever she could do to think up. And God forbid, I couldn't teach them for the day, so they had to go to my mother. That child had my mother wrapped around her finger. And my mom, I think, did her schoolwork for her.

Because Norma was off doing I don't know what. But I would say, like, those were, I think homeschooling made me extremely close with my kids. We're very tight. And part of it is just spinning, like, me and Tom being the influence on our kids versus the world being the influence on our kids. And there's something sweet and special about that. I'm not going to lie. It is not the easiest thing you will ever do. But it is the most rewarding, profitable, and investment, best investment you will ever make is in your kids.

And it is not easy. I got two homeschool mamas over there right now. And you would say the same thing, right? It's tough. There are days that it is tough, but there's nothing like it. Like, I am so grateful that I did that with my kids. I am so grateful because it is a sacrifice financially. For Tom and I, it was a sacrifice.

Some families, it's not, but for us, it was a sacrifice but well worth it it's a short period of time to like you know we always had every need met and then we had wants that were taken care of as well and what you know so you gain a whole bunch more wants but you sacrifice yeah yep that investment not worth it absolutely Not worth it. Absolutely. Not worth it. Agree or disagree, women? 100% agree with that. So if anybody's considering, I hear moms that are not patient say,

I just don't think I have what it takes to homeschool my kids. I am not the most patient individual at all, as everyone in this room absolutely knows. Okay? But if I can do it, anybody can do it. Yeah, seriously. And I was not patient at all. And I was pretty, I'm, this may be a shocker to some, but we were somewhat regimented. We started at a time, I expected to end at a time. And I expected each like we had each topic or like, what is it called? It's topics subjects thank you we had each subject and they were supposed to be done within a certain time frame and if they were not because of lollygagging

or I don't know and you do know you're being lazy okay there's prices to pay for that right you're not gonna like just be able to they don't do that in school. In school, well, maybe now they do because kids can get away with anything. But back in my day, you sat down, you shut up, and you did your schoolwork. And, I mean, there was time for chatting and having fun to a certain extent. But, like, you stayed on task because that's real world. I used to tell my kids, do you think when you go to your job, you're going to get to come in whenever you want, leave whenever you want? That's not how the real world is.

Like you got to be about work. It's just proper training, I think, because a lot of times there is no structure. And structure is important. It provides stability. Not that anybody's asking, and I don't know how I got up on homeschool, but maybe that's for somebody. Yeah. So Christmas questions. We're moving right into Christmas. I cannot even believe that we have one week. It's a week and a half before Christmas. I don't even understand. I'm not even done. I'm not even close. I haven't even started. I have started, but I am not even done. I know. I feel like I haven't because I did,

I did like Black Friday, but I didn't like do anything since. So now I feel like I don't even know what I have. I don't even know what to do. Me too. Okay. Oh my gosh. I'm in big trouble. Me too. I'm in big trouble. Like too. I'm in big trouble. Like, I just returned. I just told Norma. I said, I returned your best gift because it stinks. Why? It did not look like what I thought I was getting. So I had to return it.

So I'm in big trouble. Yeah, I might need you. Okay. It's not. But I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday. But I'm not. Like, I don't even want my favorite holiday but i'm not like i don't even want my kids to get me a gift i don't like i mean we buy for tom because god knows he loves i mean god

knows the lord literally knows the man loves yeah presents yeah yeah he does he loves his gifts me i don't care yeah i don't i don't need one i don't need one. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. I get pretty much what I want whenever I want it. So I don't care. That makes it very difficult for me. Especially when your kids get older. What do you buy for them? Peanut Gallery over there.

Are you struggling? I'm looking at Sarah because Sarah's looking at me like I'm half cocked over here. It's hard. Or do your kids all tell you what they want? Oh, yeah. My kids have a list. There's links. What? Colors.

Mine is so easy. So easy. And Allison wants everything. So I can't go wrong. My kids have like Amazon wish lists. Yeah. With links. Yeah.

I get a presentation. You get a presentation? Kylie has made me like a powerpoint presentation with photos and links and sizes it's so easy but i don't want anything that's part of my problem i've asked both of them like what do you want nothing they're like you yeah they're like you yeah like just like we yeah our family likes gifts i like giving gifts i'm receiving meh but i love, our family likes gifts. I like giving gifts. Receiving, meh. But I love, and Jared loves gifts. He's like Pastor Tom. So our family loves gifts.

So I, they make it easy though to buy. Sarah, your kids are like my kid's age, right? Well, no, that's not true. You've got two that are my kid's age, close. Then you got two that are Vanessa's, around Vanessa's kid's age, high school. Like, is there a difference between high school and when they graduate, like knowing what they want? Or is it the same? It's hard.

Are your kids like, no, they are no problem. Tell you what they want. This year is a little different. Nobody's saying anything about what they want because there's been some big changes on the home front. So everyone's just waiting to see what mom's going to do for Christmas. It's not going to look like it has looked in the past. Interesting. It's going to be about what it's supposed to be about.

And we've spent time together. That's huge, though. Yeah, it's good. Baked cookies. I had them all come over with their friends. But I'm not doing, like, if I see something that I like that makes me think, oh, Trace would like this, then I'll get it.

But I'm not playing. I'm not playing this year. I'm not going to go to the stores and rack up my credit card. I'm just, I've decided. If you don't know what they want, then why do that? That's me. Why am I going to spend money? That's why I return the thing as soon as I got it.

I'm like, she ain't going to like it. Why have a gift under there just so you have a gift under there for them to open? What's the point? So I'm kind of i'm i'm in big trouble i don't know what to do i have an idea and i'm going to give you this idea sarah because i think it will be okay i think you'll like it and i think it'll be different for your family because it's something i'm doing for my family so going to, it'll change because I'm in the same shoes as you are. So creativity is a must at this time.

Yeah. So. All right. First question. Unless you guys want to add anything. I don't even know where we're going today. But I'm going to, I'm way, I'm way happier now. See, I knew we could do it you know it's just

i don't i don't i do i was telling them i'm like why i don't understand people using people i don't like that and i don't like users so for me it's just like that but like that's part of my problem before we got came on i'm like why especially a church why are you going to be a user of the church that's not cool i know it just shows the caliber of individual that you are when you're a user and then you use the church it's like do you not understand like this is god God's house. I know. I know. Like you might want to think about that before you start using and abusing things. I don't, I don't get it. I told them, listen, I haven't been the best individual in the world, but even I never stooped that low. Like, I don't know. It's just whatever okay okay first question these are all christmas

questions by the way i'm gonna only stick to christmas questions until christmas love it if you sent something in that's not christmas just wait till the beginning of the year and then we'll hit that sucker but until then let's stick to the Christmas questions. Which this question is going to hit a little hot spot for people because it's almost like Halloween. It's a little controversial. And I'm just a girl. Especially today. Spicy.

Should Christians celebrate Christmas? Some people say it's pagan, so we aren't supposed to, but I see a lot of Christians who do. I cannot tell you how often I deal with people who do not do Christmas at all, that are not like Jehovah Witness or Mormon or whatever. They literally, I am like, this question does not surprise me in the slightest. They do not do Christmas at all. I actually respect that when you don't do any holiday,

not kind of like the Jehovah Witness and the Mormons. I actually have a great deal of respect for people who let their yes be yes and their no be no. And they don't like do this like pick and choose. Yeah. Dance back and forth. Thank you. It fits this narrative or this.

It fits this convenience of what I like in my life. This doesn't fit it over here. It's like, again, it's like with Halloween, you can't do Halloween. But we're going to the church that night, Halloween night, dressing up in our costumes, as long as they're not scary, dressing up in our costumes, getting candy, playing games, and doing a like fall festival. I'm like, what's the difference? Let your yes be yes and your no be no. And for me, Christians who follow this suit, I love them because truthfully, I believe. I mean, there are a lot of great believers who do none of them. Like they do none of them. They,

again, let your yes be yes and your no be no. And they have a personal conviction about it and they stick to that personal conviction. And I think, like, kudos. Kudos to you. But then there's the Christians who don't feel like there's anything wrong with Christmas at all, I being one of them. I don't think that there's anything wrong with it. But I've also looked in the Bible, and I don't see anything in the Word that says that you can't do Christmas. Now, there are things, and we're going to hit those topics of what people use that don't do Christmas, what they use to stand behind, and we're going to give, I'm going to give my opinion. You guys can give your opinion because I am going to ask it.

Why you agree or disagree with that stand. Do you know what I'm saying? I do. Okay. So let's look at what the Bible says about celebrating Christmas. So there is a couple scriptures, but one thing or why Christians say that you shouldn shouldn't use it one is that it's a pagan holiday right but i can't i couldn't really find anything that specifically

nailed it down that said it was pagan right there i mean people give people give examples and some of the examples uh that they use, like certain traditions, like stockings and things like that. They actually contradict, like they contradict what I believe. So we're going to hit those. So the ones that,

so when I tell you these, you're going to sit there and go, okay, I can see the contradiction. Hopefully you can see it unless you're going to sit there and go, okay, I can see the contradiction. Hopefully you can see it. Unless you're so dogmatic about your thought processes on things being pagan, then maybe you won't. But I am not always one to go in with an open mind,

so I totally get it if somebody says, that's not contradicted to me. Bells, these are the things that they say are pagan, besides the stocking and the Christmas tree. Bells, candles, and holly, and even the yuletide. Yeah. They believe they are, because they were mentioned in the history of pagan worship,

they believe that these things, the bells, candles, and holly, all were a part of pagan worship. They believe that because those are used for people like me at Christmastime, that I am also worshiping. But I don't agree with that. Let me see. Let me look at this. Okay. So here's the, okay. So what I say to this, which is, I'm reading my notes really quick. There are traditions that convey the true meaning of Christmas, right?

And then there are ones that the pagans are saying match. So for me, when I think of Christmas, so this is not pagan, what I'm about to say, this one is not pagan, but the ones like the bells and the holly and the christmas tree and i don't even know what a yuletide is do you does anybody know what a yuletide is look that up for me and candles like i have candles in my house i i have bells bell ornaments hanging on my christmas tree yuletide you don't either? But for me, Christmas is all about the birth of Jesus. It has nothing to do with anything pagan at all. It is 100%. Now, I will say Talia's mom, which it broke and I had to replace it. Talia's mom gave us this really, like I have a lot of Santa stuff in my Christmas collection. And one year I took a picture of the fireplace and above the fireplace, obviously the stockings. And then above that is this monster picture of Santa.

I got an earful from some of his podcast watchers. I'm like, okay, listen, my kids are 23 and 25. They don't believe in him. But, I mean, he's just fun. So for me, Santa is not a pagan thing. But ultimately, if you came in my house, you'd see Jesus and you would see Santa, like a lot of houses. But first and foremost, 100%, hands down, it is all about the birth of Jesus. So these are examples, and I pulled this

up. So bells are played to ring the good news, right? If you go to a Catholic church, a Catholic mass, if you go to like old, back in the day especially, churches had bells. They would ring the bells. So bells are not pagan. Plenty of churches have them. So do you not go to those churches? Because they have bells. No, lots of people who believe that Christmas is pagan,

they walk into the same church that has a bell and attend it. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like, not the same, candles. The candles are lit to remind us that Jesus is the light of the world. Okay, that is actually what is said in John. John the Baptist talked about it. I believe it's in John chapter 1. And John specifically said that Jesus was the light of the world.

So candles, in my opinion, reflect that. A star is placed on top of the Christmas tree. A star is actually considered pagan. A star is on the Christmas tree, and it is the star that was over Bethlehem. Do you know what I'm saying? It's the star that led the shepherds to where Jesus was. I think that there's just, like, it's too much.

It's too much dissecting and making something be something that it's not. Gifts were exchanged. The wise men gave gifts to Jesus, to Mary and Joseph for Jesus. So gifts were exchanged. That's not pagan. It actually happened on the day of Jesus's birth. Now, some would say, oh, well, Christmas, nobody knows the day that Jesus was born. So why should we celebrate it? And I understand that. But I would say to that same person, and I know this is like ridiculous, but in my head, I rationalize it, and I think it's kind of the same. Well, sometimes you adopt a child, and you don't know the day that it was born, but you still celebrate the day that you think that that child was born.

So do you not celebrate because it's not legitimately we don't know the day? That's craziness to me. Does that make sense to you? Put yourselves on. I mean, am I leaping by saying that? Because literally when I read that argument, I'm like, well, then we can't, we can't celebrate anybody that we don't know the actual birth of it.

Right. Which. I know. There's plenty of adopted children. People over in Romania, when they bring that kid over, it was born, dropped off in an orphanage. They're guessing at the date of that child's birth. So they don't get a birthday. Yeah.

So we don't celebrate Christmas because we don't know the actual day. I mean, to me, and that's not a pagan thought process. That is a thought process of we shouldn't celebrate the day because we don't know the actual day. Sorry, my bra is twisted. It's driving me crazy. Here's another one. Christmas trees trees have you guys know that christmas trees are pagan correct but you know why christmas trees are pagan because it's in the bible it is

i'm reading just because of the log so because the yuletide log what is that, I have it right here. Yuletide. Oh, sorry. Can you see it? No, but the camera's in the way. Okay, how about that? Yuletide, the noun, the meaning of the yuletide, and this is the noun form of the definition. Okay, the Christmas season, the season of ancient,

I can't read them yeah ancient germanic pagan holiday centering around the winter solstice now sometimes celebrated celebrated by upsy-daisy i can't go i'll go this side can you see old pagans okay i still don't know what that is so it's a it's just the christmas christmas season and that's that's like the extra the season of the ancient Germanic pagan holiday. Yeah, that's what dictionary.com. Just as much as like saying that it's pagan because of bells and stars. I agree.

I think it's just a stretch, but I'm going to go into it further. Yeah. So Christmas trees. The Bible forbids bringing trees into homes and decorating them. But let's look at the scripture and the reason why they say that. Okay. So people will defend this argument. But by the time I'm done with this, like how you can think that Christmas

and bringing a Christmas tree into your house is the same as Jeremiah 10, 1 through 6 talks about? I don't get it. It will not rationally compute for me. So if you look at what the title is above, and this is a long, and I'm going to read fast because I'm going to spare us all because it's a bunch of gobbledygook. But Jeremiah 10, 1 through 16, the title below that says, Idols and the True God. So remember that. Idols and the True God.

Because the question is, are we idolizing the tree when we bring it into the house? Okay? Verse 10 says, Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says the Lord, do not learn the way of the Gentiles. Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are futile. For one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workmen with the axe.

See, I don't personally, when I get my tree, I don't go out into the forest and cut it. So that exempts me. Now, Tracy, on the other hand, her and her family. We didn't use an axe. Her mama? She's in trouble. We didn't use an axe. What?

We didn't use an axe. They don't use an axe? No. Well, they did back in the day. I know, but we don't. Oh. When I go, we use a saw. It's different.

I digress. Let's continue on. Continue, on continue please she's guilty I'm not they decorate it with silver and gold they fasten it with nails and hammers the so that it will not topple and they are upright like a they are upright like a palm tree and they cannot speak they must be carried because they cannot go by themselves do not be afraid of them. They cannot do evil, nor can they do any good. Okay, that's talking about the tree. And as much as there is none like you, O Lord, you are great, and your name is great and might. I'm going to go down. I'm going to go down. I'm going to go down. Keep going. A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine, is what it's saying. Silver is beaten into plates. It is brought from Tarshish and gold from Euphos. The work of the craftsmen and the hands of the metalsmith,

blue and purple are their clothing. They are all the work of skillful men. But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting king. And his wrath, the earth will tremble and the nations will not be able to endure his indignation. Keep going down because thus you shall say to them,

the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens. What this is saying is, and I'm going to think I'm going to be done. I'm going to keep reading. Because what it is saying, let's go to 14. Everyone is dull-hearted without knowledge. Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image,

for his molded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are futile, a work of errors. In the time of their punishment, they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them, for he is the maker of all things. And Israel is the maker of all things and Israel is the tribal visit tribe of his inheritance and the Lord is the host the Lord of hosts is his name okay this is talking about cutting down trees chiseling the wood and making an idol and then decorating the daggum thing with silver and gold and then purple and whatever else okay the last time I checked when

I brought my tree in nobody was bowing down worshiping and then making it whatever else. Okay, the last time I checked, when I brought my tree in, nobody was bowing down, worshiping it, and then making it into an idol. Chiseling, listen, I'm just telling you, if we took a chisel and we tried to make something with it, it would be the ugliest thing you've ever seen in the face of the earth. So you don't want us making any idols for you, let alone we would never try. Nobody's doing that with their Christmas tree. It is not what it's talking about.

It's literally talked about taking a tree, cutting it down with an ax, then taking it and having people make it into an idol and then putting metal on it, silver and gold, so that you could bring it into your home and you could worship it. Not a Christmas tree that is decorated with ornaments. Does that make sense? Are you guys getting the same thing? Yes.

Not the same thing, guys. You got to read the whole entire thing. Not just do not take a tree, cut it into the, don't take a tree out of the forest and cut it down and bring it into your house. Which is the extent of the argument that people believe that you shouldn't do christmas go to like if you read the whole entire thing i don't understand how you could possibly think that is talking about the christmas tree versus making that piece of wood into an idol does that that make sense? Yep. All of you guys are chicken wing heads. No, I agree. It's all it is. At the end of the day, if you're not worshiping something like,

so I knew somebody and I won't say who they were. I knew somebody that wouldn't have a Christmas tree for a very short season because they were against it. At my house, we didn't grow up with one because it was pagan. Right. Well, because his understanding was you're bowing down to a Christmas tree when you're placing the presents underneath it. Oh, my word. No, my dad, my dad would not allow us to have a Christmas tree because it was pagan. Right. Then he decided, I'm embarrassed to say, then the man decided to build us a Christmas tree out of string.

It went like this, like a diamond. And then it had string around it. This is how you screw your kids up, people. You can't have a Christmas tree that's cut down in the woods, but you can make your own and put it in your house. You don't do this. The hypocrisy my dad was a great man but yeah this is a huge failing because people tend to make these

monumental stands change their mind right right that's what happened change their mind now it's okay right and and that's never explain away that I was wrong. So then we have a homemade Christmas tree, and people would walk in and go, what the heck is that? No one's allowed at my house the month of December. I'm embarrassed. I know. Just a tree my dad made. I know.

And then we decorated it, right? And I think he was trying to make christmas as normal as he possibly could and stay true to his right convictions yeah the problem is with that is it creates confusion for your kids right and it'd be far better to let your yes be yes and no be no yeah for no confusion whatsoever correct that's how you have a balanced, stable child, spiritually speaking. Otherwise, confusion all the way around. So my thing is, there are plenty of Christians that won't celebrate it. Part of it is because they say, well, the world, you can't be like the world, right? You shouldn't celebrate Christmas.

The world celebrates Christmas. Well, I know, but the world's not really celebrating Jesus either. They're celebrating the consumer, the Santa, the whole, like, I mean, part of it is wanting to be a giver, and there is sweetness when the world does it too. There's something to be said with the attitudes of people that change at Christmas time. People are happier, they're kinder, they're nicer. That is true.

For whatever reason that is. But a lot of times they're not celebrating the birth of Jesus. No, not at all. That's really not the main focus. Do they recognize it? Probably. But that really not the main focus. Do they recognize it? Probably, but that's not the main focus for them. My thing, too, is, well, I'm not going to be like the Jehovah Witness. Jehovah Witness don't even recognize Jesus as part of the deity.

So I'm not going to not celebrate Christmas because of the world, but I'm also not going to make myself look like a Jehovah witness either. It's not happening. So for me, I do Christmas. I don't think it's pagan. You really need to, if you believe it's,

if you believe it's pagan, then you really need to research it and make sure that if you say these things are pagan, that the rest of the year, you're not enabling them. Don't put a candle in your house. Right. Don't do candles. Definitely don't do bells.

Right. I mean, let your yes be yes. What? Don't have a doorbell. Yeah. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. Yeah. Really?

Anything more than this is from the evil one. So if you're going to make stands, make sure that there are ones that you can live with for a lifetime. And if you can't live with them for a lifetime, and you need to change them up because you've made a mistake, make sure you go to your kids and own it. Because I promise you, it comes back in spades if you don't. Because they will doubt things in the word of God. If you

do not fix them, they'll say it was okay over here to change our mind. So is it okay to go over here and change this? But they never understood the reason why the mind was changed because you were in error and you better, like if you want a strong Christian child, you need to own your mistakes. If you say we're not doing this anymore, like we're going to celebrate Christmas, right? We're going to celebrate Christmas because I was wrong. I checked out into the word of God. I dug deeper. And you know what? I made a mistake. So we're going to celebrate Christmas. We're going to bring the tree in the house because this is what the word of God says. A tree is not an, a pagan thing. The tree is actually not pagan.

It is when you would cut a tree down and you make it into, you have to explain all those things. Otherwise spirit of confusion and Satan's going to come in and he is going to use all of that against you. If you don't think it won't, you are sorely mistaken. Maybe your kid's a one-off, but I'm just telling you, personal experience, dealing with other children as well, when parents are not consistent and they have one set of rules for them and another set of rules for themselves, one set of rules for the kids, another set of rules for themselves, one set of rules for the kids,

another set of rules for themselves, it does more harm than good. The do as I say, not as I do is like, just wait. It's going to come back, especially when they're teenagers. You don't think it will because they're all sweet and loving and love Jesus right now, and they can't wait to get to church and to to children's church and everything else yeah but when they finally have a mind of their own and want to do whatever they want to do they're going to use everything that

you've done and they remember everything you've done that's not been consistent and you've always had a little loophole or you've always had a little excuse why it was okay for you they're going to do the same thing and you're going to sit there and go what happened what happened to this beautiful child that loved jesus and went to church every sunday and couldn't wait to get there you've sown bad seed that's what happens so next question on to onto a happier subject Okay, let's hear it. Does anybody have anything they want to add? Okay, you got to be on the microphone because nobody can hear you. So if candles are pagan, then would Hanukkah be considered pagan?

No, because the Jewish people don't think, the Jewish people don't celebrate Christmas, sweetie. They don't believe in Jesus. I'm saying Hanukkah. Yeah, the Jews don't believe in Jesus, right? They don't believe Christmas is pagan because they don't celebrate Christmas. They celebrate Hanukkah. Hanukkah is the menorah. The menorah is totally different. It is what was inside the most holy of holies. And it was miraculous how the menorah and the candles stayed lit. They celebrate the miraculous when they do Hanukkah. It's not the same.

Because Christianity celebrates the birth of Jesus. Jewish people don't even believe. They believe Jesus was a great prophet. They do not believe that Jesus was the son of God. They are not celebrating Christmas. They don't celebrate January 25th. I mean, December 25th. They don't celebrate it.

They celebrate the 12 days. Every day they get a gift. After that, it's over. So Christmas is not Christmas for them. Great question though. So candles for them, they're holy. Yeah. How would you describe pagan?

Somebody's asking in the chat. Pagan is something that is not. Pagan is something that is like Greek gods, things that people worshipped Venus. They worshipped, what are some of the other ones? Mythological idols and things like that that bail things like that's pagan anything that you are worshiping outside of jesus christ is pagan it usually involves a god of some sort like back the romans were famous for

worshiping all these different greek gods there would have a slew of them. And if you remember when Elijah had the fire come down on all of the prophets of Baal, they weren't just singing and worshiping and crying out to one god. There was many gods they were trying to get to respond to them. That's pagan. Perfect. So, yeah. But for me, it's like perspective.

Where's your heart? When you're opening gifts on Christmas morning, when you have that Christmas tree in your house. When you're singing happy birthday to Jesus with a birthday cake. Lots of people do that. We do. Yeah. Lots of people have birthday cakes on.

We make one for him. Yes. Alyssa, we've done it. That's from Bobski. Yeah, I know my mom always did it. Yeah, so I mean, like what is the heart behind it? And that's what Jesus, really what we're judged on. Right. On the day of judgment when Jesus judges, he judges the heart behind it? And that's what Jesus, really what we're judged on on the day of judgment when Jesus judges.

He judges the heart. What was the motive behind the whole entire thing? That's what we're judged on. That's good. And that's what's most important. When you brought that Christmas tree into your house, were you worshiping it? Or were you making something like a decoration to celebrate the upcoming day? I wanted my house to smell good. Oh my gosh. It's like the best smell ever. We do a real treat

every year. There ain't nothing like it. I know. I just want it to smell good. There's nothing like it. So it's the heart behind it. I agree. And so I think it's a wonderful thing to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then celebrate on Easter the gift that he gave us through his life. You know? So celebrate his birth so that he could give up his life. Right. Super important. Absolutely.

So next question. Okay. It says, this isn't a serious question but just curious are you a morning person or a night person and what is pastor tom oh i'm both yeah i can do i've learned to be both through working out because normally i'm not a morning person yeah and then also god has me up early now, but I can do both. Like last night, I went to bed about 1 o'clock in the morning, maybe 1.30.

I was up at 4, prayed for a period of time, fell back asleep, got up to go work out at 7.20, and then haven't gone back to sleep. But Tom, 100%, not a morning person. I mean, it depends on what morning is. 3 a.m.? I don't care. Whenever he wakes up.

No, he doesn't require hardly any sleep. He's disgusting. Like he requires three to five hours a day. That's it. I wish. And he is happy as can be be not initially in the morning because he doesn't like waking up I mean he's not well no that's not true he does like waking up he just doesn't want to do a lot of talking when he first wakes up yeah but he's definitely a night out like

this morning when I was out praying in the living room, my son comes walking past me. He had just been, I could hear him in the garage. He just had gotten back from a run, a three-mile run, after he had just walked with Tom for like two hours with the dog. He did a three-mile run, and he was shadowboxing in the garage where I'm hearing a lot of shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, because he has to make that noise with his mouth. What that does, I do not know. Nothing.

It's kind of annoying, I'll be honest with you. So I'm praying and I see him walk right past me to go to his room. I didn't even say anything because I didn't want to scare him. But I said to him this morning, or I said to him this afternoon, did you even know that I was awake? He's like, Mom, I always know. You're weird. You're like always sitting there every time I go to bed.

But he went to bed at 4. Now, Tom went to bed probably at 2. Maybe, actually probably way later than that. But he was up like by, I don't know. By the time I got home from the gym, he was getting up. So he doesn't require any sleep. He's disgusting. Sometimes he sleeps longer. Sometimes it's even less than that. Like on

Sundays, three hours of sleep going into church on Sunday. Then need nothing. It's crazy. So I'm both, not by choice, Thomas Knight. What are you guys? Just curious. I want to know. I'm both, not by choice, Thomas Knight. What are you guys? Just curious.

I want to know. I'm just curious. Yeah. I usually go to bed at like 1130 and then I'm up at seven. So I'm one of that. So 1130 to seven. That's a decent night's sleep. Yeah.

That's pretty average. Logan? I'm a morning person just because I have a small addiction to coffee. Oh my. You know, you can drink coffee at 11 or noon. Decaf is sacrilegious in my house. We don't do decaf. I don't even know why. Heather drinks decaf.

I don't know why anybody would drink that. I forego coffee if I drink decaf. I love mornings. Oh, that's right. You're forego coffee if I had to drink that. I love mornings. Oh, that's right. You're up at 6. I am happy. 5.30? I want to have conversations.

Does Jeff? I have a ton of energy. I am ready for the day every single morning. But I'm also, like, tucked into bed, like, at 9.30. 9.30? If I'm home and I'm, like i'm like not like out and doing something if i'm home i like to tuck myself in at 9 30 and i like shut down like after lunchtime i like slowly like shut down oh my gosh you and heather are two peas in a pod heather is in bed by 9. If she has her way.

Tom always teases her and he's like, your chariot's waiting outside the door. The pumpkin is... The pumpkin has arrived to take you home because she's like... She can't. Sarah?

It varies. You're like me? You can do either. I can do either. Are you happy in the morning? Yeah. I don't know why I'm yelling. I am because I'm trying to.

I hear you. You can. Are you happy in the morning? Because I'm happy in the morning for the most part. I'm happy in the morning. Am I happy in the afternoon? I don't know. It just depends on what's going on.

Yeah. I try to be joyful all the time, but, you know. Yeah. Well, sometimes you gotta put on joy, girl. That's just the way it is. Talia, you gotta talk into that mic, baby girl. You're part of the crew. I'm literally both, because I can go to bed at, like, 9, 9.30 and get up

early, or I can go to bed at, like, 3 a.m. and get up at, like, 12. bed at like 3 a.m and get up at like 12. yeah well that's because like you're a teenager you can actually do that the part rest of us though if we go to bed late we are getting up early like we don't have that choice yeah i don't feel that's the teenage life love it while it lasts it It's a beautiful thing. Next thing. If you had to pick any animated character to portray you in a documentary about your life,

who would it be? Oh, man. Good question. I kid you not. This one, I was like, what the what? I think there's people over here that want to vote before you say it. You guys think about who you are because I'm going to tell you I could not think of anybody.

Wait, do we have no, do you know? You can think about who you, so I'll read it to you. If you had to pick any animated character to portray you in a documentary about your life, who would it be? Like who looks most like you. No, it's not.

Personality. Personality, girl. Yes, it's got to be who is most like you okay so I could not think of anything I said for me Jesse from Toy Story she'll throw you down she'll throw down that's me okay or or Dumbo's mother which I have idea, but I can totally see that. I can see myself being Dumbo's mother, but I don't know why. Oh, my gosh. I have no idea. I know mine.

But yes, I do see that. But Jessie's more of mine. I need to pass. I'm going to think for a second. I think I know. I'm going to Google it real quick. Hey, Logan, do you know? Mine would be Louise from Bob's Burgers.

Yes! What? Yes! Who is that? Can you show me a picture? She's the youngest child in a cartoon, and she's just, she's kind of a psycho. Oh, my gosh. But in the best way. What is her name?

I don't. What's her name? But you're not rude. Louise? No. It's, yeah. Logan can definitely be like her. But she'll snap back at you. Really? Yeah. It would be. What does she look like? really

it would be what does she look like this one this girl yeah oh oh you can't put that can you put that on the screen

for people to see yeah because I bet you people have okay you definitely don't look like her but she's like an outlandish character

is that what that is she's a small child she's oh she's nine years old she's a small child and you behave like this child no she has the intelligence of like a 30 40 year old but she's she's got this slight tendency to be a little off put it rash it. Yep. Oh, my gosh. That would be me. I got to, what is this from? Bob's Burgers. Bob's Burgers. Where do you watch this?

It's on Hulu. It's on, okay. It's so good. Is it like an adult? Yeah. A cartoon? Okay. Yeah.

All right, next up is Vanessa, Vanny on the Block. Who are you, girl? I got nothing. Jasmine. Jasmine? Jasmine who? Jasmine. A lot of Who are you, girl? Jasmine. Jasmine who? Jasmine. When I didn't know Vanessa and I was first coming to Foundation,

I used to watch her on stage and think, she's like Jasmine from Aladdin. So is Jasmine... That's really sweet. Is Jasmine from Aladdin? Is she sweet? Yeah. Did she grow up in the hood? Yeah, she's really sweet. Is Jasmine from Aladdin? Is she sweet? Yeah. Did she grow up in the hood?

Yeah, she's pretty hood. No. Listen, Vanessa. Fanny. But she's hood. Vanessa. When he came with her. Listen, I'm just saying to you.

Yeah. If anybody met you and knew you, God bless. Okay, outside of the hoops, no one would know that you're from Brooklyn. That's kind of like her. Because you're the nicest person ever. But she's, but then when Aladdin came, she had sass. Yeah. And he was from the hood. Vanessa doesn't really have sass. Listen, you did not

hear her with the youth kids just a couple months ago. I have a little bit. She has the mom voice when she needs it. You would have been impressed. I've never seen that side of you. I didn't either. And I felt like I was in trouble. I feel like I could. I was married to Vanessa. Yeah. I would manhandle you like there's no tomorrow. That's why I have to be. Listen, that's why if I am going into a lesbian relationship,

I'm just saying if I were to exit. Oops, if I was to exit out of heterosexuality and enter into a lesbian relationship, it's going to have to be Tracy. I'm going to have to be the guy. She's going to have to be the girl. And she can, listen, I saw her with that funeral director. So I know she could give me a little bit what what, but I'm still going to win. What are you saying? I'm laughing. No, no words no words no you have words over there you're saying no logan's like

logan you've you've never considered who you'd be who you'd have a lesbian relationship with it's never been a thought taya says norma i'm not saying the act of it. I'm just saying compatibility, marriage, like who you like totally do good with. Like, yeah, I could totally, totally see myself with Tracy and totally like, it would be a great marriage. I'm not talking about the physicality of it, but I'm just saying I'd be a great husband to that wife. That's all I'm not talking about the physicality of it, but I'm just saying. I love it. I'd be a great husband to that wife.

I would be a great husband. That's all I'm saying. Oh, my gosh. I love this. I love Christmas episodes. What? I love Christmas episodes. Listen, you're cute.

You'd be my trophy wife. I got a lot of things going on for myself. You would protect me at all costs. Listen, I would so take care of business. Girl, you never have to worry about a daggum thing. I wouldn't. I think it's hot when Tom gets out of the bed, takes care of, like, he hears the noise.

I'd do that for you. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Okay, so Logan, totally hetero all the time. I get that. Totally get that. Vanessa,

you don't know who you would be. I'll take Jasmine. Yeah, I like Jasmine. Listen, yeah. She's beautiful. I can totally see that. I don't know personality-wise, but apparently they're saying she's very sweet. She can hold her own. I can hold my own. She can hold her own. Don't worry about me, Hope. She has a tiger.

I'm just saying, you wouldn't be my woman because I don't think you can hold your own. Listen, I'm alive. See, and I could never be married to Heather. If you thought I grew up, I'm alive. Okay, that's true. And I could never be married to Heather. do you know why we're so much alike

we almost ordered we were talking about our Christmas Eve dresses we almost ordered the same our dresses look very similar they're two different colors

oh my gosh I think like both of us would fight for position too much yeah yeah 100%

yeah she'd want to be she'd want to like control me yeah she would she would'd want to be, she'd want to like control me. Yeah, she would. She would. I have to be the controller. Yes, you do.

Listen, if I go that way, I'm like, I'm a very submissive wife. You are. But listen. You really are. It's impressive actually. I'm a very submissive wife. But listen, if I'm going gay. Yeah.

I'm going to own the show. Might as well. I'm not being submissive anymore. Go big or go home. That's right, girl. Sarah. Yeah. I'm going to own the show. Might as well. I'm not being submissive anymore. Go big or go home. That's right, girl. Sarah. Okay, I need clarification. I'm not really gay and I really don't want to go gay. No, no, no. I thought we were talking about animated characters. I don't know how we got into lesbian relationships. Who knows?

Because Vanessa, they're saying she's like, um, they said, we're out of time. Dadgummit. So Vanessa, I said to her, they were saying that Jasmine could hold her own. And I was like, no, because I'm like, if I was lesbian, I could handle her. Oh, Pocahontas. Pocahontas. Oh.

Pocahontas. Yes. Yes. So we need the viewers to tell us. Sam, viewer. Yes, yes, yes. You can page with all the colors of the world. I see that more than Jasmine.

And she married a white guy. Okay, we need voters. Wasn't Pocahontas really sweet? She was really sweet. But she also was strong. You're very sweet. Headstrong, yeah. I mean, I feel like if you had to, you could. But she also was strong. You're very sweet. Headstrong, yeah. A little independent.

I mean, I feel like if you had to, you could. But not really. I'm not trying to diss you. I'm just trying to compliment you that, listen, you're a sweet person. I am. You're very sweet. I'm very tender. You're very tender.

If somebody ever hurt you, I might have to hurt them same same i would not be good if somebody yeah it would not be good it would not be good don't do it because no one should hurt a gentle yeah soul i don't like that don't do it don't hurt me no okay real quick okay we're two minutes people go out one second after and the secret word is i I can't see it. Oh, sorry, sorry. You. The word is you. Y-O-U.

And it is 4-0-2, correct? Yep. Perfect. In 11 seconds. Yep, perfect. Okay, so we will finish up. Yeah, we have to. And just so everybody's not petrified and afraid.

Oh, my gosh. It's just a hypothetical theoretical if I went gay. I will never go gay. Tom's gonna live to 120. I don't want to go to 120. So it's never gonna happen. I'm married to him

for the rest of my life. Thank God I really that's who I want to be married to. But I'm just saying hypothetically theoretically. I might have to be married to. But I'm just saying hypothetically, theoretically. I might have to take Jer out and take Tracy. That's all I'm saying. It's all good. Sarah, tell us.

I would choose Fiona from Shrek. Okay. I'm starting to think about that. Why in the world? I mean, she's spicy. So I do agree with you. She's like, but outside of that. She thinks farts and burps are funny and stuff like that, which I do too.

Okay. Yeah. You know what? I agree with you. She's got a little bit of an edge. She's a princess. But she's got an edge. There she is.

Oh, there you go. The two. There you go. The two in one. The two in one. Yeah. So in other words. I like it.

You're like a Gemini. Isn't that the Gemini? Isn't that the Gemini that's the twins? They have to like. Yeah. If we're going to go animate, I guess. She's got to be two people, which I don't really know astrology, so I don't even know why I use that as an example.

Because I don't know it. I have no idea. But isn't that like they say it's like two different twins? You don't know either, right? I have no idea. I don't know. It is Gemini. Gemini, is it twins?

One's good, one's bad? Is it one good, one bad, or is it just two twins? I don't know. Okay, take that back. I don't know. She's got a good side and a bad side. That's all I'm trying to say. Okay.

One that's crude and rude, and the other one that's beautiful. Talia, give me the lowdown. Patrick Star. Oh, my gosh. SpongeBob SquarePants. Patrick Star, I can totally see that. But if I had to pick a girl, I would say Belle. I mean, I like to read. I'm very pick like a girl I would say Belle I mean I like to read I'm very like

and I would love to marry the Beast oh my gosh the Beast is your type yeah he's pretty hot no Beast okay I I have no words okay

so I'm gonna be very interested in seeing you start dating in case nobody knows. This is what Talia. Oh, yeah. Just in case. Somebody else doesn't know. We have a bunch of people watching.

60 people watching. Listen, I love you, Talia. But you do have some dingbat moments. And that is precisely who you are. But the happiest of all. She's like the happiest. I know. Look how happy he is.

Yeah. It's sweet. He's very happy. So sweet. But you got it going on too, girl. So, I mean, I don't think you're completely Patrick Star. He's dumb as a box of rocks and that is not you. But you do have dingbat moments, as we all do.

Okay, back to you, Tracy. You're not getting away with it. No, no. I think Nala from The Lion King. Because she starts out like really sassy. She's super sassy when she's young. And I was very sassy when I was young. Like I would walk down the hall and like bump people

because I thought I was like way better than everybody else. And I was like, oh, yeah, I didn't see you there. Like because I played basketball. So I thought I was like way cooler than everybody. So anybody, if you're watching at some point and you went to Lunenburg High School in 2000. I love you. And you're sorry. And I'm so sorry. For being mean. If I could you were mean to them? I love you. And you're sorry?

And I'm so sorry. For being mean? If I could go back, I would not have bumped you in the hallway. I can't say that about people that I punched in their face. I never did that. I'm not sorry. Okay. They deserved it.

They probably did. The people that I bumped did not deserve it. No. It was undeserved. So I apologize. And then she grew up and she was super mature and she grew out of her old ways. I love that. I like, yeah.

For whatever reason, she came into my mind. She ended up being beautiful too. She's like a princess. She's a lion princess. I like that. A lioness. Because actually she was like Lion King. Yeah. When Nala's parents like somehow related to.

I can't remember. I had to Google it. I'm making this incestual. I've gone gay and now incestual. I need Jesus. I know. So today when I do the salvation call, it's actually going to be for me. She's going to be repeating it after herself. I'm going to be praying and repeating it for myself.

I'm getting saved today, people. We went very pagan. You're okay with Christmas, your astrology, and gay. Can anybody tell me I have a really good church to stay to Sunday? Yeah, right here. Here we go. Sunday, 10 a.m. Please join us.

You can watch online if you can't join us. Apparently, girl needs Jesus. Big time. I told you, I was spicy before I walked in. You were. You did. You were. You did. There was a warning. There was. I told you I was spicy before I walked in. You were. You were. You did. There was a warning. There was. I need a graphic. We need a graphic.

There it is. A disclaimer. I'm literally going to make one. A disclaimer. I'll start right now. So, all right. If you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, today is your day. We love that you joined us today and hopefully you laughed and joked around with us and learned that christmas really ain't that pagan hopefully you learned that otherwise stick to your guns do your thing don't celebrate don't get gifts and you'll be happy i'm sure of it what you you be you that's right logan logan said it yeah logan got it for me this time. Yeah, you be you, as Logan said. I mean, listen, if you're happy and you don't celebrate Christmas, it's a day. Like, who cares? Whatever. But thank you for joining in with us today, if you were laughing and joking around.

And if you, like me, need Jesus today, let's say the sinner's prayer. Get our lives right. Let's rededicate them if we need rededicating. And let's have a great Wednesday. And I'm not going to see you on Friday. I know this is devastating for some. It's actually devastating for me. I'm pretty sad about it. But there's a good reason. I'm not going to go into the good reason, but there's good reasons for it. So let's pray. let's get our lives right, and let's get ready for a great weekend. It's the last weekend

before Christmas. Well, I guess it's one more weekend, because the 24th is Sunday, if you get technical. But that weekend's pretty much gone. Yeah, it is. So this is the weekend, baby. You gotta get it done. Let's say the prayer. Heavenly Father, we come to you right now,

and Lord, we thank you for the great price that was paid on the cross. We thank you for dying for our sins. We thank you for the stripes that you bore on your back for our healing. We thank you that you became poor so that we might be rich. All these things are promised to us if we turn our life over to you. I ask you to forgive me of my sins. I thank you for what you did on the cross.

And from this moment, I will live for you. Whatever you say to do, I will do. Wherever you say go, I will go. And when I grow old, I will live with you forever. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Eternity is yours. A new day has begun and it can start right now. Find a great church. Tune in to our church. If you don't have one, let us know that you got saved. And you know what? I mean, like, it's all, today's been a lot of fun and laughter, but in all seriousness, there is no greater choice and no greater gift that you can ever give yourself than becoming God's child and asking

Jesus to be your Lord and Savior. You want the greatest gift ever? Get saved, live for him, and every day will be like Christmas. I kid you not. It can be, and it will be if you let it be. Have a great day. See you on Wednesday of next week, and then Friday, Tom's going to be with me. So, bye-bye. Real talk. Real talk. Real talk.