1. That’s How Love Goes. In this episode, we read a Christmas sermon by Norman Nagel and discuss the nativity, the mother of God, iconography, Bible translating, story-telling traditions, teaching through the story, God’s strange way of loving people, and people’s expectations of Christmas and how it affects the Church.
  2. Craig and Troy plumb the depths of the importance of Christmas by simply asking, "But what if it didn't happen that way?"
  3. Hidden Streams wanted to finish the year with a celebration of the good and holy gift of love.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Advent and Christmas traditions from Latin America.
  5. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the visitation of Mary to Elizabeth while both are pregnant – Mary with Jesus, and Elizabeth with John.
  6. In this episode of Tough Text, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price explore the peculiar story of the Sons of Sceva from Acts 19, discussing the miraculous acts performed by the apostles, the dangers of mimicking faith without true belief, and the implications of syncretism in the early church.
  7. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we look at a tradition in the church akin to “Holy Week” but for Christmas.
  8. Craig and a more-or-less alert Troy take a look at the 3rd Epistle of John.