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I also have the Miracles of Jesus, Worship, Adding Depth to Your Devotion. And this one, Becoming the Beloved Disciple, Coming unto Christ Through the Gospel of John.

And you have another one coming out in February called Greater Love Hath No Man.

Great Easter book.

Yes. Look at that beautiful book about Easter.

Christmas has three levels. Number one is the Santa Claus level, and that's reindeer and ho, ho, ho, and hanging our stockings and all of that. We love it, and we enjoy it so much, but he said the other level is the silent night level, and he talked about the baby Jesus and the story of the wise men and the shepherds, but what brother Smart said that I thought, wow, good point. He says the man who keeps Christ in the manger will in the end be empty and unfulfilled, and this idea of he grew up, and this is where for the rest of the New Testament we'll be looking at the adult Christ, and the level three is the Christ the Lord and the Savior, and there wouldn't be a level one or a level two without level three.

He says, A fiend in a human body, a man who had drenched himself in the blood of the innocent, a man whose deeds were enough to cause hell itself to shudder, none other than Israel's king, Herod the Great.

The question as to whether Herod really believed Israel's king had been born is of little moment. What is of importance, that which makes the nativity story complete, is the evidence of the anger and wrath of hell at the birth of God's son.

And listen to this, as Satan's chief apostle, Herod, with all the cunning of hell, sought to destroy the Christ child of a truth, the kingdom of God will never go unopposed in the days of earth's mortality, the period of Satan's power.

It's a Sperry Symposium classic.

She said, I hope we can all feel the strength of abiding in our fields, keeping watch over our flocks. And then she said, let's be where we are supposed to be so that angels know where to find us.

This is what they said, by using the number 14, Matthew emphasized Jesus' perfection and messiahship as well as his direct descent from King David.

Sometimes, as here, genealogies might be telescoped or condensed to match a desired number of which an author is particularly fond.

the newest New Testament Sperry Symposium is called The Household of God and Gay wrote an article called Communal Settings for Meals in the New Testament, which I'm excited to read.

If someone went to rsc.byu.edu, they just need to click on books. And the fourth one down is The Household of God, the 51st Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium.

For the first time this year, we get to open up the New Testament.

You can get all of those. And there's a number of books. People might be surprised at the number of books that are available there at the RSC website. It's a Deseret Book co-publication.

you can get it in ebook from Deseret Book or you can get it the hardcover.

I was excited to have him because of his book called Stone Manger, the untold story of the first Christmas.

And these are on Kindle, on Amazon, you can find them a couple of articles,

But I'm excited to have him because I love to get closer to what really happened and how do we best understand Christmas and excited to hear especially about his insights about the manger today.

Elder Packer has a great book on the temple, which most people I think read and are familiar with, THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.

Oh, go get Dr. Anthony Sweat's book, The Holy Invitation and The Holy Covenants.

These books have really blessed a lot of my students as they're preparing for the temple.

My children, too. My kids that have gone on missions have had them read this. It's so helpful just to kind of have not only an expectation, but a doctrinal expectation and backstory kind of of what am I doing here as I'm going to the temple.

And she later wrote a book called Worth the Wrestle just about that very idea.

If you want a fuller discussion with more details about hesed and about the covenant as a whole, there's a book that he recommends. And I brought it here. It's God Will Prevail by Carrie Muehlstein, friend of the podcast.

Obi one's brother is actually mentioned in the Book of Mormon, in the Book of Jacob,

I always like the Jewish Study Bible.

Over the past four decades, says Leonard Sachs, there has been a massive transfer of authority from parents to kids.

In many families, this is Leonard Sachs again, what kids think and what kids like and what kids want now matters as much or more than what the parents think and like and want.

And showing that we've got this reversal of things where children now are consulted about everything along with that in many families, this is Leonard Sachs again, what kids think and what kids like and what kids want now matters as much or more than what the parents think and like and want.

There's a great essay, if anybody wants to read it, I think it's collected in the book Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley.

If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.

The Jewish people who will it will have their state.

at Basel, I founded The Jewish State.