Stephen Nichols

But it's just a time for a family to have a bit more than let's read Luke 2 and now let's go open the presents.

The other one is the Sundays in Advent.

So as we think about Christmas, we're preparing for it from the beginning of December and then as Christmas comes.

And again, the same thing's happening there.

You're sort of walking through that story of promise.

And you're capturing all the dimension of the promise, the richness of the tapestry of who this person to come is.

And then you move right into Christmas itself.

Well, we are ham, not turkey.

So I don't know if that alienates me from some listeners or not.

But our tradition is there's wonderful parks here in Central Florida.

And we always pick some park and go to not amusement parks, nature parks.

So we always pick some park and do a hike on Christmas afternoon together as a family.

Well, Nathan, I'm going to turn the tables on you, the interviewer, and ask you, do you have any traditions in the Bingham household over Christmas?

You know, Nathan, as you mentioned that, it's one of the things I love about Christmas.

You'd be walking in a department store or in a shopping mall and you hear, "'Joy to the world, as plain as day.'"

And you hear that he came to make his blessings known as far as the curse is found.

And you just pray that somehow God uses those words to stick in somebody's head.

Because there's just such rich gospel truth so beautifully told in the Christmas carols and hymns.

It's great.

Yeah, that's right, Nathan.