Hello, my friend, this is Jeff Kavens, and this is Christmas week.

And our team is taking off this week to relax and be with their families.

But I wanted to take just a moment to say, Merry Holy Christmas to you and your whole family.

I know that it's a big deal.

We know when family gets together and so much happens, and the center of all of this is the Lord Jesus Christ, the fact that God became one of us and showed us how to live.

There's no better story in the world.

But I'm very grateful for you.

I see you as a gift in my life where every week we can get together and just having you to

talk to helps me even work through some of the issues of my life and some of the things I'm

thinking about, not just theological issues or insights, but, you know, living the faith. And I hope that

what we are putting together on a weekly basis is truly a blessing for you.

You know, I don't do this alone. I play one role in this cog, and that is I talk. And I get to

share with you. But believe me, it's on behalf of a tremendous team at Ascension. We have dozens of

people who are involved in all of the podcasts

and getting the information and the shows and the new offerings out to you. And I'm very grateful

for all of them. You know, this coming year is posing some challenges for us, certainly,

you know, socially, politically, in many ways. And I do hope that

coming back and joining me every week will be an opportunity to gain knowledge and insight and

wisdom and resulting in understanding and how we can make a difference in the world. I've been talking

to some of my friends recently and they've been saying that

something's happening. There is a revival going on in the Catholic Church. Bible sales are

through the roof right now around the country, largely due to Catholics who are studying the

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