Speaking4Him Podcast: #480: 10 of My Favorite Christmas Songs of All Time (Part 1)

 "Silent night, holy night!

All is calm, all is bright.

Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child.

Holy infant so tender and mild,

Sleep in heavenly peace,

Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!

Shepherds quake at the sight.

Glories stream from heaven afar

Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia,

Christ the Savior is born!

Christ the Savior is born."

--Silent Night

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Today is the start of The 2021 Speaking4Him Christmas Celebration! Listen Here as I share #10-#6 on my list of Christmas favorites! What's your favorite?

• Wreaths Across America 
• Abortion Fight Continues

Christmas Songs

• Silent Night

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bing-crosby/silent-night

• What God Wants For Christmas

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/darius-rucker/what-god-wants-for-christmas

• Penguin, James, Penguin

• Merry Christmas, Darling  

• The First Noel

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/traditional/the-first-noel

• You’re Here 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_(Francesca_Battistelli_album)#cite_note-CCMSTORY-3

• The Gift 
• Angels from the Realms of Glory

https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-angels-from-the-realms-of-glory

https://hymnary.org/text/angels_from_the_realms_of_glory

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Speaking4Him Podcast: #479: The Walton’s Homecoming (2021)

 “My opinion is that ‘The Waltons’ is a 50-year-old classic. Classics are eventually adapted, updated, remade and reexamined. I'm just happy that our show is in that category, and I hope the new version finds its audience as ours did in 1971. Good luck to them." Richard Thomas

thecatholicspirit.com

Today I review the 2021 Walton's Homecoming reboot.  Listen and consider supporting this new CW Project!!! 

• Pearl Harbor Day
• Michigan B1G Champs
• The Walton’s 2021 Trailer

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Speaking4Him Podcast: #478: The Most Reluctant Convert

  “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” C.S. Lewis

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Today I share my review of the C.S. Lewis biopic The Most Reluctant Convert. Listen Here to his journey and be thankful for the grace of God!!!

• Judy Norton on The Walton’s Reboot
• She Chose Me
• The Most Reluctant Convert Trailer

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Speaking4Him Podcast: #477: The 5 Kernels of Thanksgiving

 “Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 106:1

https://online.dpsk12.org/

We have much to be thankful for.  Today I share the 5 Kernels of Thanksgiving--and a special surprise for the kids!!! Listen Here and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! 

• Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation 
• Otto’s Tales Today is Thanksgiving
• StoneGableBlog

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Speaking4Him Podcast: #476: The Chosen Season 2: Episode 1: "Thunder"

Jesus: “You wanted to bring down fire from heaven to burn up those five people?” Jesus asks James and John: “It sounds worse when you say it like that.” 

thebibleartist.com  

Today I talk about The Chosen: Season 2: Episode 1.  Listen Here and be thankful for the compassion of Jesus!!! Do you know him? :) 

• Blue Lives Matter Flag
• Thanksgiving Friends
• Chosen Clip

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Speaking4Him Podcast: #475: Speaking4Him Update (Fall 2021)

  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17

Today I share a ministry update on Speaking4Him.  Listen Here and thank God with me for his faithfulness to me and to those who have helped me along the way. Also, pray as I look to the future!!!!  Truly blessed!!! 

• Winsome Sears-Virginia
• Vaccine Mandate Stay

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Speaking4Him Podcast #474: Back 2 Basics: Myth #12 You Can (or Should) Live Your Best Life Now

 “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1-2

tsfmemphis.org

Should we seek to live our best life now?  What are the eternal ramifications of this mindset?  Listen Here and seek God's plan for your life.  It is always best!!! 

• Texas Abortion Ban Update
• Refunding Police
• Ryan Seacrest discovered Moriah Smallbone 

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Speaking4Him Podcast #473: Back 2 Basics: Myth #11 God Wants Us to Prosper Financially

 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” Luke 16:10

the1a.org

Today I discuss what The Bible really says about prosperity. Listen Here and thank God for the financial blessings God has given you!!! 

• Dad’s on Duty
• Greg Abbott Signs Transgender Sports Ban 

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Speaking4Him Podcast #472: The Jesus Movie

“For the first time in the history of music, all those artists were off the road at the exact same time. Everybody just started saying, ‘Yeah, I want to be a part of that.” Andrew Irwin

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Today I review the movie The Jesus Music.  Listen Here and be thankful for the many godly artists that have used their talents to encourage the saints and glorify God!!!  What Christian artist had the biggest impact on you?

• Matthew McConaughey - We Are All One In Jesus Christ 
• Canceled Holidays
• The Jesus Music Trailer

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Speaking4Him Podcast #471: Back 2 Basics: #10: Christians Can Harness The Law of Attaction

  “For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:43-45

https://mlmnation.com/

Today we talk about the dangers of The Law of Attraction.  Listen Here and seek to put God before self and follow His plan!!! 

• Christopher Columbus A Sinner With A Heart for Frontier Missions By Rick Wood

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Speaking4Him Podcast #470: Back 2 Basics: Myths #8 & #9: People of Any (Or No) Religion Can Be Saved [Podcast]

 “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:8-10

subsplash.com

Today we discuss who can get to Heaven and how to get there.  Listen Here and be thankful that Jesus is the way!!!

• First Podcast 
• The Civility of The Left
• Facebook

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Speaking4Him Podcast #469: Back 2 Basics: Myth #7: We Can Simply "Lift People’s Spirits.”

   “For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 2:9) 

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/

• Blue Line Flag 
• Matt Walsh Lease
• Matt Walsh Comments

Today I discuss the fact that pointing people to Christ is essential to truly lifting people's spirits.  Listen Here and be thankful for all that Christ does FOR and IN us!!! :)

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Speaking4Him Podcast #468: Back 2 Basics: Myth #6: We Can (or Should) Avoid Talking About Hot Butten Issues (Sin)

 “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:21-24)

https://tracymauro.com/

Today I talk about how important it is not to avoid the Truth about the Hot Butten Issues.  Listen Here and purpose to share the Truth in Love.  Jesus is the answer! :)

• Show Me The Father 
• American Underdog

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Speaking4Him Podcast #467: Back 2 Basics: Myth #5: : We Can Be Better and Rise Higher (Without Christ)

   “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

http://www.hellokids.com/

Today I talk about how important it is to understand that only through Christ can we be better or rise higher.  Listen Here and thank God for the strength He gives us to accomplish His will! 

• Student who filmed vandal talks to Fox News
• Woman Eggs Larry Elder
• Medical Side Effects

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Speaking4Him Podcast #466: Back 2 Basics: Myth #4: We Can Harness The Power of Positive Thinking

 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26

https://www.clevelandheartlab.com/blog/can-positive-thinking-prevent-a-heart-attack/

Today I talk about how important it is to understand that everything positive we have in life can only come through the Power of Christ! Listen Here and let God bless you for His Glory!!!

• Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in place
• 9/11

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Speaking4Him Podcast #465: Back 2 Basics: Myth #3: We Can Teach People How to “Live a Good Life” Without Scripture

 “Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

https://gbfclife.com/blog/2020/08/18/no-longer-i-but-christ

Today I talk about how important it is to understand that we are incapable of living a good life apart from the Word of God and the Power of Christ! Listen Here and be thankful to God! :) 

• Texas Abortion Ban
• Black Classes in Atlanta

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Speaking4Him Podcast #464: Broken People: A Conversation With Joseph Reid

 "And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." Exodus 4:10-12

Joseph Reid

Joseph Reid, founder of Broken People talks about how his struggle became his ministry.  Listen Here to this powerful conversation about how God can turn broken people into useful vessels fit for His service!!!

• Joseph's Book
• Broken People Website

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Speaking4Him Podcast #463: Back 2 Basics: Myth #2: We Don’t Need to Tell People They Are Sinners

  “And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 

Matthew 9:11-13

slideshare.net

Today I talk about how important it is to understand our problem--sin.  That understanding alone will help us find our solution--The Righteousness of Jesus Christ!  Listen Here and hold on to hope!    

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Audio Clips

• Oregon Graduation Requirements

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• Video That Inspired This Series 

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Speaking4Him Podcast #462: Back 2 Basics: Myth #1: Man is Basically Good

  “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.” Mark 10:18

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Join me today as I discuss the importance of looking at the ramifications of this belief from a biblical perspective! Listen Here and commit to learning and living the truth!!! 

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Audio Clips

• Thankful Olympic Athlete

Additional Info:

• Video That Inspired This Series 

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Speaking4Him Podcast #461: Back 2 Basics: Soli Deo Gloria “Glory to God Alone”

 “Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory.” Warren W. Wiersbe

marcminter.com

Join me today as I discuss the importance of doing everything for God's glory! Listen Here and commit to living all out for Jesus!!!` 

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Audio Clips

• Country Mill Farms
• Elijah Lamb

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