Shawn Ryan

And it came out, I don't know, back in 2002, something like that.

And

Now the new book is a complete rewrite and complete revision and updating of that book.

So I had to update it.

I had to do the research.

And I learned so much in the research of that book that changed my perspective on Christmas, changed my perspective on...

the Gospels, changed my perspective on Jesus.

Just a lot of things about some of the translations that may not be giving us the best picture of what really took place.

There's one Greek word, and if you get that Greek word wrong, it kind of changes everything.

And I think a lot of people have gotten it wrong.

And then the questions, things like, things that everybody wonders about, like, why do we celebrate it on December the 25th?

I had my theories about that, but now there's been some more recent scholarly research done into that.

So now we got good evidence why we do celebrate on December 25th.

So I just kind of by updating the book, I kind of updated my own knowledge about Christmas.

And it just made this Christmas so much more fun because I get to tell, hey, you know what?

And I get to tell people all this fascinating stuff.

lord thanks for this opportunity to talk to sean sean see him again and hang out with his folks his people here at his place it's just such a encouragement to me and such a joy to do and we pray that as we talk about christmas this the incarnation of the son of god this monumental miracle that took place 2 000 years ago that it would first of all encourage people who are your followers and embolden them and give them confidence in what we believe but

I pray for those that are kind of spiritually curious.

They're not sure what they believe.

They're on a journey.