How The Early Church Solved A Growth Crisis And What Leaders Can Learn Today

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A little Christmas cheer, a few groan-worthy dad jokes, and a surprisingly practical deep dive into Acts—this one brings warmth and wisdom in equal measure. We start with a laugh and then move straight into Acts 6 to ask a hard question every leader faces: how do you protect your core mission without doing everything yourself?

We unpack how the apostles solved a real growth crisis by empowering seven trusted leaders instead of centralizing control. That choice becomes a modern playbook: delegate to develop people, not just to dump tasks; give meaningful responsibility; show everyone how their role fits the mission. From there, we trace Stephen’s courage and Philip’s initiative, drawing a direct line to teams that advocate boldly for the work they believe in. If your team only executes, they don’t own the vision yet—and that’s a leadership problem you can fix.

The conversation shifts to Saul’s conversion and Paul’s far-reaching journeys, where partnership and accountability keep the mission moving under pressure. Alongside the inspiration, we get honest about burnout, boundaries, and the “invisible war” inside every leader: procrastination, excuses, self-doubt, distractions, and the comfort zone. You’ll hear practical frameworks you can use today—time blocking, batching communication, and delegating outcomes with real authority—so you can scale without losing focus or your life outside of work.

If you lead a team, guide a community, or simply want to work with more clarity and less stress, this episode gives you a field-tested blueprint from the early church to now. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review to help others find the show. What’s the invisible battle you’re facing this week? Tell us—we’re listening.

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:28):
All righty.
Welcome.
Ho ho ho.
Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 (00:35):
Ho ho ho ho Merry Christmas.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
Merry Christmas to all ourlisteners.
Telling you.
Thank you so much for supportingus.
Today's coming to Christmas.
Yes, oh my goodness.
Episode 102 today.
Wow.
That's exciting.
That is very exciting.

SPEAKER_01 (00:55):
But yeah, we're rolling in towards the end of
the year here.
We've got uh this is the lastofficial show that actually we
talk about some biblical stuffon, and then we uh then we roll
into total chaos and dad jokesfor a week, and then we're back
to uh throwing in some biblicalstuff on there.

SPEAKER_00 (01:15):
Correct.
Correct.
I'm looking forward to the NewYear's Eve show.
Well, it's actually on the 30th,but it is on the 30th.
But uh it is our New Year's Eveshow, and it's just uh you know
99% dad jokes.
So please send us some.

SPEAKER_01 (01:30):
We might throw a couple biblical jokes.
We might maybe we can throw someBible jokes in there to just
like throw some biblical inthere.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
But yeah, we're excited to behere.
If you've joined us last week,you know we uh we finally made
it through John and we'vetransitioned to Acts, and uh

(01:50):
we're gonna go through thattoday.
But what we do at the top of theshow and at the bottom of the
show is Dr.
Posey has like 700, I think he'sup to about 700, 800 dad jokes
in front of him.
He's got stacks of papers andbooks and calendars and and
cards and all kinds of stuffover there that I'm looking

(02:11):
across the table and seeingstuff.
Uh so yeah, so he we're gonnathrow out some Christmas jokes,
I think, right?

SPEAKER_00 (02:17):
We're gonna have some uh winter jokes.
Winter and Christmas jokes.
Yeah.
So here's a here's the firstone.
What um what is a weatherman'sfavorite food in the winter?
You know this one.
You've probably weatherman'sfavorite food in the winter.

SPEAKER_01 (02:40):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (02:41):
A burrito.

SPEAKER_01 (02:43):
Uh I was gonna go barbecue.
Oh, well, that'd be good.
That'd be good.
That sounds good right now.

SPEAKER_00 (02:49):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (02:50):
Sounds real good right now.
BBQ.
Oh, I like it.

SPEAKER_00 (02:56):
Okay, so um, you know, there's a lot of Christmas
music on the radio now.
Oh, there is just about everystation, doesn't matter what uh
genre, they're gonna playChristmas music, you know, for
the next 24-48 hours.
They just are, okay.
So, what do you call a group ofsweet potatoes playing music?

SPEAKER_01 (03:15):
I didn't, I've never heard this.
You've never heard this one?
I have never heard this one.

SPEAKER_00 (03:19):
So I'm gonna repeat it.
What do you call a group ofsweet potatoes playing music?

SPEAKER_01 (03:24):
Hmm.
Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 (03:26):
A yam session.

SPEAKER_01 (03:32):
Oh, that made me laugh.
The delivery was just perfect onthat one.
I'd never heard that one aboutthe so that made me that made me
smile.

SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
Okay, this is probably, but you can remember
this in the spring, okay?
Maybe remember this in thespring.
Um, did you hear about the guywho wore two jackets when he
painted his house?

SPEAKER_01 (03:54):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (03:55):
Because the instructions on the can said put
on two coats.

SPEAKER_01 (04:00):
I'll give you some applause on that one.
I like that one.
I like that one.
I have to remember that one.

SPEAKER_00 (04:07):
Okay, so so you know, I don't know what people's
drink of choice will be over theholidays, uh, you know,
Christmas dinner, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 (04:13):
We all have different drinks.

SPEAKER_00 (04:14):
We all do.
Uh what state in the UnitedStates has the smallest soft
drinks.

SPEAKER_01 (04:26):
Thinking, processing.

SPEAKER_00 (04:30):
How about mini soda?
All right, I'll give you thatone.
We're gonna get to the Bible injust a minute, okay, people?
Give me one more.
Okay, here we go.
How did the octopus beat theshark in a fight?

SPEAKER_01 (04:48):
This has nothing to do with Christmas, but it's a
great deal.

SPEAKER_00 (04:53):
How did the octopus beat the shark in a fight?
He was well armed.
There you go.
There we go.
Okay.
You got me for us, or we'regonna give it away.

SPEAKER_01 (05:06):
You're gonna spare so we can get through act.
We got to get through the bookof Acts.
We really do.
So you have 750, I have like 45.
So if I give them now, we'llit'll just be a Dr.
Posey dad joke, you know, a shownext week.
So you know I gotta I gotta savea few.
So yes.

SPEAKER_00 (05:22):
Okay, that sounds good.
So last week we uh really gotthrough chapter one and two of
the book of Acts.
Um and so the we see the mainperson in those particular,
actually up through uh chapterfive, really, is Peter.
Yes, um, in chapter six, we seea significant um event happen

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that has some incredibleleadership principles.
So we're gonna focus on that,and then we'll just kind of go
through the rest of the book.
But um so if you're not familiarwith what happened in Acts
chapter six, uh the church, theearly church was growing quite
rapidly.
You had the apostles, uh, thetwelve apostles that were doing

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everything.
They were teaching, they werepraying, they were distributing
the food, and evidently,unfortunately, some people got
neglected in the daily fooddistribution.
So this was brought to theattention of the apostles.
And just let's just stop rightthere.
If there's an issue going on inyour organization, do your

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people have uh the confidence?
And do you have is there a trustlevel up there so they can bring
you the issues?
Or if they bring in the issues,you just say, yep, uh-huh, and
then just forget about them.
So what we see here in Actschapter six is that not only did
they bring an issue up, but theapostles took it seriously, and

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what they did was they gatheredthe disciples, it said, and they
allowed the disciples to pickseven men.

SPEAKER_01 (07:03):
Um Acts six, two, yeah, three.
It would not be right for us toneglect the ministry of the
word.
Choose seven men.

SPEAKER_00 (07:11):
Yeah, choose seven men.
So he let them be a part of thesolution.
So it's like, okay, here we havethis issue in our organization,
whatever it may be, it could bea good issue, it could be a bad
issue.
Instead of the the twelvedisciples just deciding, they
said, Hey, we want you to be apart of the solution.

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What do you see are the optionsfor this?
And what a great leadershipprinciple.
And so they allowed thedisciples to pick seven men to
carry on that work of the fooddistribution.
Now, um I just think that's agreat, great uh principle, right
there.

SPEAKER_01 (07:50):
Yeah, one of the principles I put in is just
don't do everything yourself,right?
Equip others to lead.
And it's sort of one of theprinciples I pulled out of that.

SPEAKER_00 (07:59):
I think that is so important.
And we see that um uh in themindset uh of businesses, we see
in the mindset of churches, uhsometimes the um the uh people
have the expectation thatpastor's gonna do everything.
Okay.
Um and there's a certain point.

(08:20):
Dr.
Posey did.

SPEAKER_01 (08:21):
I'm just kidding.
He had great staff.

SPEAKER_00 (08:23):
Yeah, I did.
Um, but at the beginning, and myand I had a small church in
South Fort Worth, great people,great people.
But they had learned that thatthe pastor wasn't doing
everything, you know.
And and I so I was reallyblessed uh to have that
opportunity to learn to realize,no.

(08:44):
Um and and one of the lessons wecan get from this, and we see it
throughout the letters of Paul,is that every person is
important in the kingdom of God.
Every person, if a person inyour organization is not
important, if not valuable, thenwhy are they there?
Are they just taking up a seaton the bus?
So um they need to know how theyfit into the big picture of um

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of the whole organization.
Right.
Um story is told years ago of uhtwo bricklayers building a
cathedral.
Um this was uh way, way hundredsof years ago.
And one person asked one of thebricklayers, What are you doing?
I'm just laying brick.
The other person said, I'm buildhelping build a cathedral.
And because you just see he sawhow his piece of was fitting

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into the big puzzle.
And I think that's how goodleaders help their people.
Every person on the staff,whether it's a custodian,
whether it's a mail carrier,whether it's a you know uh
salesperson, accountant, theyhelp them see how all of it fits
together and how valuable theyare and important they are to

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the whole organization.

SPEAKER_01 (09:56):
Right.
And then I'll go with mine, justyou know, when you're delegating
and you know, you don't have todo everything is you know,
delegate to develop others, notjust offload.
So, in other words, think of howyou can help them grow, not just
make your job easier.
So don't give them just all theeasy tasks that nobody wants to

(10:18):
do.
Give them some of those, right?
It's gonna free up your time todo the most important things,
but also give them some tasksthat have meaning that they can
they can take it to the youknow, the next step.
And uh uh we want them to uh bedeveloped and to grow in their
position.
It's sort of like what we talkedabout last week on succession

(10:39):
planning.
You gotta have those peoplelined up and delegation's part
of it, you know, and and whatyou're talking about, it's it's
this all sort of comes togetherin leadership.

SPEAKER_00 (10:48):
Yeah, and you want to be sure you just don't
delegate the busy work, right?
Um because every organization,no matter how big small, has
busy work.
And everybody's got to do someof that.
Um, but you if you just delegatethe busy work and and and not uh
empower them, equip them, trainthem to do something that they
feel, oh my gosh, this has gotto get done.

(11:09):
This I have to do excellent inthis.
Um, then you're really what areyou saying to your people?
You don't trust them, right?
Uh you don't feel you'recompetent.
There's all kinds of messagesthat you might be sending that
you don't want to send um byjust offloading busy work.
So um so F chapter six is agreat thing here.

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They just they chose them, theythey equip them, they empower
them to do the work.
Um, we see right after that uhtwo significant stories, one
about Stephen, who was a firstChristian martyr, and one about
Philip, who was um had asignificant encounter with an EP
Ethiopian.

SPEAKER_01 (11:52):
So Stephen was one of the seven that were chosen,
right?
One of the deacons that waschosen, right?

SPEAKER_00 (11:57):
He was one of the seven, and so was Philip.
And but Stephen um uh, you know,he was evidently incredibly
brilliant, um, but he was alsovery bold.
Um people then like that, and sowe see his story.
He he shares uh the message umand the mission and those kind

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of things, and people then likeit.
And he was the first Christianmartyr.
In other words, he was stoned todeath for what he believed in.
And and right at the end of thatstory, um, in chapter eight, we
see the mention of a man by thename of Saul.
And uh he he becomes a veryimportant figure in the rest of

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the book of Acts.
Um, there is a story about uhPeter and Cornelius, which is
which is powerful.
Um in um in Acts chapter eight,we also see a man by the name of
Philip, who is one of the seven.
Um and so those two um uhparticular stories um

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significant um uh share uh withus the fact that those men were
bold in their witnessing.
Uh they were huge advocates forthe cause of Jesus.
And um, and so the questionwould be um what about your
people?
What about the CEO?
What about are you are you boldin your in your declaration of

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your of your work?
Are are you an advocate for yourproduct?
Um or is it just a job?
You're just punching a clock.
And um and so that to me is ahuge thing that uh you can look
at.
Um uh and then we get tobasically from about chapter
nine, we see Paul and hisconversion story.

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Um, and that is very, verysignificant.
And Anias there anoints him andscales fall off his eyes.
He's he's he's baptized, um, hebecomes uh he he totally changes
his opinion about Christianity.
Um and and then we just kind ofhe's out of the scene for a
while, and then in chapter 13,really from chapter 13 all the

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way to the end of chapter thebook, chapter 28, uh really
focuses on Paul's missionaryjourney.
Uh he has uh Paul and Barnabas,then Paul and Silas.
Um, and uh they are just justlike Stephen, they're bold
witnesses for the faith.
Now, Stephen never got out ofJerusalem.
Paul traveled all over theMiddle Eastern part of the world

(14:35):
at that particular time.
I mean, he went into present-dayTurkey, uh, he went into uh
Greece, he finally ended up inRome.
Um, there are some uh scholarswho believe that he had another
missionary journey and he wasall the way over to Spain.
Um and and so, but he wastirelessly committed to the

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cause and uh gave his life forthe cause.
Um and so one of the things wehave to be careful about, okay,
uh as leaders, is that we couldcommit ourselves so much to the
cause, whatever that is, that weliterally can wear ourselves
out.
And I am guilty of that.

(15:19):
Um, you know, uh, you know, whenyou're working 60, 70, 80 hours
a week consistently for a longtime, um, it can it can wear on
your body.
And I've experienced that.
Um I, you know, I uh didn't knowhow to burn out.
Yeah, burnout.
I did I didn't know how to putboundaries on it.
Um, you know, and I learned thehard lesson.

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Um and it's uh if you see a lotit get done, and you know, in a
church work, there's always moreto do.
There's always people to govisit, there's always hospitals
to go see, there's alwayssomething to to research, to
write, uh, you know, there'salways something to do.
But that's true for anybusiness.
You know, there's alwayssomething to do that you can
think of.
You can always have a reason tobe in the office.

(16:04):
And and so that balance betweenwork and family, personal life
is is so, so crucial.

SPEAKER_01 (16:11):
Yeah, we have to have a balance and you have to
set up borders and and you know,and you know, one of the things
that that adds to it is sort ofwhat you showed me on your
phone, right?
Is sometimes uh, you know,perfectionism, you know, you get
out there and you're doing a lotof extra stuff that maybe you
don't need to do, right?
You know, and and a lot ofplanning that's taking up

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crucial time that you could behome with your family.
Yeah, so what are my thoughts?
And yeah, so share with thepeople.

SPEAKER_00 (16:42):
Yeah, so I got this uh from Lance Bachman, and um
and this was his um his comment,which I think is so powerful.

SPEAKER_01 (16:52):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (16:52):
Um he said, most people think their competition
is other people.
It's not your real opponents areyour procrastination, your
excuses, your self-doubt, yourdistractions, and your comfort
zone.
That's the real battlefield.
So I'm gonna repeat that again.
Your real opponent is yourprocrastination, your excuses,

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your self-doubt, yourdistractions, your comfort zone.
That's the real battlefield.
And um and so the the questionwould be um, I think one of the
things that Paul did that was sobrilliant is he didn't travel
alone.
He always had a companion,whether it was Barnabas.

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Now they had some disagreementsabout Mark, um, but he didn't
set out again.
He set out with Silas.
And so so there was alwayssomeone there to hold him
accountable, to s you know, toto encourage him, to spur him
on, to keep going.
And um, and so you know, there'suh sometimes when Paul faced

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some very difficult situationsin different cities.
Um but as we read the story, um,yeah, he was the main guy, but
they were he had a cheeringsquad, he had some traveling
companions, he had some peoplethat were behind him a hundred
percent.
And um, and that uh helped himfocus.

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Uh I'm I'm sure there was a lotof self-doubt, but they kept him
focused.
They kept encouraging him.

SPEAKER_01 (18:24):
Invisible war.
Invisible war.

SPEAKER_00 (18:26):
The invisible war.
Yeah, I like those words.

SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
The battlefields the mind, right?
You know, and and a lot of timeswe get that distraction, that
perfection, that overwhelming.
We have to people please or thatself-doubt, sort of what you're
talking about, you know?

SPEAKER_00 (18:40):
Yeah.
And so I learned uh years agofrom a pastor, just a great guy
from uh Oklahoma City.
He said that his he um uh andthis is how he did it, and it
was very effective for him.
He said he would have hisassistant take all of his phone
calls, um, and he would returnphone calls from 1115 to noon.

(19:01):
Yeah.
Okay.
And then he would return phonecalls from like four to four
forty-five uh in the afternoon.
And that way he wasn'tdistracted every time the phone
would ring.
He knew he had a great assistantthat would take the call, take
great messages, answer lots ofthe questions that people wanted
him to ask, answer.
Um, but if there was somethingthat he needed to do, he could

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focus on that particular time.
That way he could focus hisattention on other matters and
not be distracted by answeringthe phone every five minutes.
And and um I tried to put thatinto practice.
Sometimes I was successful,sometimes I wasn't.
But it's like, you know, youdon't need to be on your
computer 24 7 answering youremails.

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There might be some time andsay, okay, I'm gonna devote this
amount of time right now toanswering my emails, or I'm
gonna devote this amount of timeto doing research.
Um, and I remember when I was inthe ministry, um, I I knew that
I did.
Sermon planning.
I planned, I took a week off andand planned my whole sermon

(20:05):
series out for a whole year.
But then on Wednesdays, that'swhen I would write um my sermon.
But I did it for 10 days inadvance.
So I was always a week ahead.
And then I would hand all thatstuff out on Monday for the
following Sunday to my staff.
And but it took me a long timeto learn that.

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But I had to keep my Wednesdaysreally focused.
Wednesdays and basicallyWednesday afternoon and
Thursdays was the thing that Iwas like, no, I've got to focus
on writing.
And so once I learned thathabit, it just, you know, I had
empowered my people.
I'm not going to be in theoffice.
I'm going to focus.
I'm going to write at home.
You know those kind of things.

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And I trusted my staff to do thework.
And uh they were great.
And uh I just kept doing thatfor a long, long time.
And I thought I was getting moreproductive.
The more I kept to thatschedule, uh, the more
productive I I became.

SPEAKER_01 (21:03):
Yeah, 100%.
I think you're right on that.
I think that's a invisible warthat a lot of us battle with,
right?

SPEAKER_00 (21:09):
I think everybody battles with that.
What no matter what your job is,you might be working from home.
Um you you could, you know,maybe uh taking care of people,
your caretaker.
It's still the still thing isyou can get distracted from your
mission real easy.
And with social media and ourphones, everything's in our

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pocket on our phone.
It's so easy to get distractedby those kind of things.

SPEAKER_01 (21:36):
The um Australian um schools are going back.
They're they're recommendingthat all the kids get flip
phones because they can't evenhave the smartphone in their
locker or at school, even there.
And if you want to communicatewith your kids, you need to have
flip phones.
So there's gonna be a whole newmarket for flip phones coming
out.

(21:58):
That's old school, right?
You know, a lot of these peopleare going where there's no
phones, no smartphones andstuff, no checking email and you
know, talking and texting andall that.
Uh, it's sort of funny, youknow.
We we go so far advanced, andthen oh, we're gonna start
easing back a little bit on someof these things for for our
youth.
I think it goes up to16-year-olds and stuff.
But it's it's pretty weird thatyou know that everybody's going

(22:19):
back to uh you know recommendinguh flip phones, right?
Back in the day.
We need to find the floor.

SPEAKER_00 (22:23):
Well, if you know those people that make flip
phones.

SPEAKER_01 (22:26):
Oh, I know.
I mean, invest in the flip phonemarket, right?
Might be the new thing, right?
Might be a new thing.
A lot of kids in the the world,right?

SPEAKER_00 (22:33):
What do you want for Christmas, Johnny?
I want a flip phone.

SPEAKER_01 (22:36):
That would be like something you never hear, right?

SPEAKER_00 (22:40):
Okay, so here we go.
Um we I think we pretty muchfinished uh Book of Acts.
You know, we we just have a fewminutes, so let's get us some
dad jokes.
What about that?
Well, yeah, not a problem.
Okay, so don't give up too many,right?

SPEAKER_01 (22:53):
No, not too many.
But these are down under uh 750,725, right?

SPEAKER_00 (22:58):
So Okay, so so um you know, we got Christmas two
days away.
So we gotta have some Santajokes, okay?

SPEAKER_01 (23:05):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (23:05):
Okay.
Um why did Santa get a parkingticket on Christmas Eve?
Uh I don't know.
Because he left his sleigh in asnow parking zone.

(23:26):
Gotta do that one, right?
So we've heard this one athousand times.
Okay.
How much did Santa pay for hissleigh?
Uh yes.
Nothing.
It was on the house.
Yes.
We've heard that one so manytimes.
Still funny.
Um, okay.
What what do you got for me forSanta Joe's?

SPEAKER_01 (23:45):
Oh man, let's see.
I I want to keep some of them,but uh uh let's see.
I've got um no.
I'll save that one for that one.
Um I I just pulled up a wholebunch and then I scrolled.
So uh uh.

(24:07):
Yeah, I got I got off my uh mypage.
So oh gosh.
Yeah.
Our audience is like justwaiting.
Oh yeah, they're they're just Imean, I've I don't have any of
the good ones that you do, so uhlet's see.
What's uh every parent'sfavorite Christmas song?

(24:29):
I don't know.
Silent night.
Silent night.

SPEAKER_00 (24:32):
That's a good one.
Yeah, that's a really good one.

SPEAKER_01 (24:36):
Oh, let's see.
Uh what did Adam say on the daybefore Christmas?

SPEAKER_00 (24:45):
I don't know.
You don't know that one?
I I've heard it, but I don'tremember anything.
It's Christmas Eve.
Eve.
Christmas Eve.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Right.
That's my two.
That's your two.
Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 (25:00):
I go one more.
What's your what do you get whenyou cross a snowman with a
vampire?
This is simple.

SPEAKER_00 (25:06):
When you cross a snowman with a vampire.
Yeah.

unknown (25:11):
You know it.

SPEAKER_00 (25:12):
I know, but I can't think of it right now.
Frostbite.
Frostbite.
Okay, so here's a totally notthis is I probably should say
this for a New Year's Eve, butI'm gonna say it now.
What do you get when you cross apolice officer with a skunk?

SPEAKER_01 (25:33):
I don't know.
Law and odor.
I was trying to think ofsomething with like the pepper
spray, you know, smart, youknow, skunk spray or something.

SPEAKER_00 (25:45):
Yeah, something like that.
Uh all right.

SPEAKER_01 (25:48):
One more.
We'll let the people off tillnext week.
I think uh oh my gosh, that'scrazy.

SPEAKER_00 (25:54):
I know it's crazy.
Uh it is crazy.
So I'll I'll be better prepared.
No, next week it's all dadjokes.
It's all dad jokes.

SPEAKER_01 (26:03):
Yeah, you're you're prepared for that one for sure.
What did the sheep say?
Merry Christmas.
White, how did the sheep sayMerry Christmas to each other?
Uh fleece Navidad.

SPEAKER_00 (26:15):
Fleece Navidad.
We'll leave that.
We won't sing it, but we willsay goodbye with that joke right
there.

SPEAKER_01 (26:21):
Hey guys, have a Merry Christmas.
I know we're we're sort ofhaving fun here because we're
rolling down towards the end ofthe year.
And and uh this is this is ourChristmas show.
Have a happy, you know, MerryChristmas to you, Dr.
P.
And I'm seeing something in yourhand.
You're looking at me with thatlook.

SPEAKER_00 (26:39):
So last Christmas, my kids gave me a dad joke
calendar.
Yes, one dad joke for every dayof the year.
Yes.
Well, I've just looked at it andI've used the dad jokes up
through September the 12th.
No, the 11th.
So I've got about a hundred dadjokes to go for next week.

SPEAKER_01 (27:00):
So um and you don't even know what you might get at
Christmas, too.
So you might get the 2026calendar.
It's great.
You might have 400 and some moreto add to the people are gonna
say please in some of the goodones.
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (27:16):
So anyway, we're gonna be well prepared.
It's always a lot of fun to dothe uh Christmas.
I mean, it is for us at least.
It is, you know.
It is.
So have a great Christmas.
Yes, Tim, we'll see you nextweek.

SPEAKER_01 (27:30):
Yeah, Merry Christmas to you and yours, and
Merry Christmas to all ourlisteners out there.

SPEAKER_00 (27:35):
And thank you so much for sticking with us.
You know, this is uh episode102, and we're just excited to
start another, you know, hundredepisodes.
It's just a lot of fun.
Absolutely.
We're having fun with it.
We are having a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 (27:48):
Hopefully, you guys are having fun.
You learn a little bit about thebiblical, about the leadership,
and and uh yeah, join us thenfor the uh the dad joke show for
our New Year's Eve show.
And if you don't like dad jokes,well, we'll see you in January
next year.
So anyway, other than that,guys, uh have a Merry Christmas.

(28:09):
Uh hope uh your family's wellblessed.
May you be well blessed on theholidays.
And other than that, Dr.
P, they make it a great day.
Make it a great day.