The Stack: Faith, Politics, and the Fight Over Christmas
As Christmas approaches, debates over faith and politics are intensifying. In this episode, Todd responds to media narratives and progressive pastors who argue that so‑called “MAGA Christianity” fuels oppression. Todd challenges that premise directly, arguing that Christianity should not be reduced to political labels and that believers should be clear‑eyed about what Scripture actually teaches regarding government, authority, sin, repentance, and religious freedom.
Todd also addresses a viral headline involving Megyn Kelly and prayer, using it as a springboard to explain a biblical understanding of prayer, guidance, and access to God. From there, he contrasts American cultural debates with the very real persecution Christians face globally—especially in Nigeria—drawing from reports that document violence, displacement, and murder of believers by Islamic extremist groups.
The episode closes with a reminder that Christmas is not about movements or politics, but about Christ Himself. Regardless of political views or background, the gospel calls all people to repentance, truth, and transformation through Jesus.
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📝 Transcript: Faith Politics and the Fight Over Christmas
The Todd Huff Show – December 23, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Yes, my friends, it is the week of Christmas. Here we are the day before Christmas Eve. I guess it's Christmas Eve Eve. This is the last day that we will be in this week. Gary Varvel is filling in with the special Christmas Eve message tomorrow. And of course, Christmas Day will be out, airing encore episodes both Thursday and Friday, my friends.
Todd Huff: So yesterday we had the interview, by the way. I welcome you to share your thoughts on those. This is something, the interviews, that we're going to do a little bit more of than we used to. So I'm bringing on a variety of people. Yesterday, one that I didn't agree with, of course, when it came to the issue of belief in God.
Todd Huff: But I like to have these conversations. I think that they're necessary in this climate that we're in. And so you can always share your thoughts on how. Those. God@toddhuffshow.com is my email. So today I just want to wrap up. Well, there's a couple of articles I've seen out there that I want to address.
Todd Huff: Where the Christmas season, there's this—well, there's discussions about the Christian faith as it pertains to the MAGA movement and all this sort of stuff. And I just want to address those. There's a couple of articles that are in the Stack of Stuff, which—oh—we have it.
Todd Huff: We have a page for each episode that we do where you can go and see the links to things, the transcript, a summary, and that sort of thing, and a link to listen online to anything you may have missed. But anyway, the links will be there. So that's where we're headed this morning, my friends.
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Todd Huff: Okay. Let us begin, my friends. I got a couple of articles I want to get to, or try to get to here today, especially on the eve of Christmas Eve. There are—we're, of course, in the season where faith matters. Actually, I do want to mention this. I wasn't—this was in the stack. I got a short stack today. People magazine. I just want to address this, and this may upset some folks. I—I don't know. But I do feel the need to address this.
Todd Huff: People.com. You may have seen Turning Point had a—what—I don't know what that event is called. AmFest? Is that what it is? AmFest. A lot of speakers on stage, whatever. A lot of people that you're familiar with and so forth. And a lot of—a lot of thoughts, I guess, come in the wake of that. But Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly was speaking there and she said—now, Megyn Kelly's Catholic. I know many of you are Catholic.
Todd Huff: I don't listen—I’ve had friends, of course. I’m not—been to a Catholic wedding. I may have been to a Catholic mass one other time or something. But I've never really been raised in the Catholic Church. I came to Jesus. I've shared this on here when I was 15, 16 years old.
Todd Huff: Is that right? 1993. Yes, 16 years old. I guess just shy of 16. But regardless, with really no religious background, I came—or I should say Jesus called me and made his—made the gospel clear to me at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes football camp in Marshall, Indiana, 1993.
Todd Huff: Ironically, since we're talking about Catholicism here, the gentleman that invited me to that camp was Catholic. Our football coach at the time named Tom Blank invited a lot of kids on the team to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes football camp. That's where I first heard the gospel.
Todd Huff: Not as a kid. I would say that I was raised in an area and in a time where biblical values mattered to people, even if they didn't go to church. It was still considered, I would say, the moral roadmap for people.
Todd Huff: Although a relationship with Jesus, and of course the stories in the Bible, were something I didn't—I wasn't taught. I did go to a vacation Bible school a few times as a kid. I did attend weekday religious education, which was a program that our school offered back—I’m guessing they still do it today.
Todd Huff: I don't know. But you could go to that as a student once a week, I think, and it was an optional thing, and study the Bible and that sort of thing. I did those sorts of things, but not raised in church, regardless.
Todd Huff: Regardless, some of this is foreign to me. When I read you this headline, and I just want to address—I don't want to spend a lot of time here—but this again with a couple of days before Christmas, the birth—we're celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Todd Huff: Although it's almost certain that this is not the time that he was actually born. This is just the time that we celebrate it regardless. Headline here. Megyn Kelly says she's prayed to Charlie Kirk “so many times” to give her guidance since his death.
Todd Huff: You know that I respected Charlie Kirk. And his—his death, as I think it's impacted many of us in a lot of ways. I've talked about this. I've talked about how it's caused me to pause and to rethink some of the things that we're doing.
Todd Huff: How we can do them better. The urgency with which we need to get the message of truth out into this culture. How we need to get it in front of people where they are. It's not enough just to have a radio show podcast, the Todcast here, and expect people to find it.
Todd Huff: We've got to be more proactive in how we get this out there. And there's things that we're working on, believe me, behind the scenes. And I think Charlie Kirk did a fantastic job of that. He did a lot of good things for proclaiming truth. And ultimately the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But I will tell you—and I know—I know Catholicism, there is, you know, saints and all that sort of thing. And I—it’s—as a Protestant, this—this just doesn't compute for me.
Todd Huff: And this is—no, please don't misunderstand. It's not disrespectful. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anybody here. I'm trying to be what I would say is biblically sound and say, first of all, Charlie Kirk was a really good guy who did some really good things.
Todd Huff: And I think we could all learn from—learn from some of the things that he did and said and taught and so forth. But to pray to Charlie, it just—it—it doesn't compute to me. You pray to your Father. I know this is upsetting to some, but it just doesn't compute to me. Why would you pray to Charlie Kirk for guidance when you have access through prayer to the creator of the universe? It just—it doesn't make sense to me.
Todd Huff: But that's the way that people—and I don't—listen, I'm not questioning motives. It just—it just doesn't—it doesn't add up to me. When I read the headline, I saw it on social media here a couple of days ago, and I just wanted to mention this.
Todd Huff: That's not how I look at this. I know some people will say, “There, you would—with them.” Well, sure, I would do that. But if I'm going to seek guidance by prayer, why would I not seek to talk to the one who knows everything? Which, by the way, is none of us. None of us.
Todd Huff: By the way, don't be—when it's time for me to go, don't be trying to seek me in prayer, my friends. Seek the Father. Seek Jesus. Pray in the Spirit. Don't—don't seek guidance from me when I'm dead and gone. Anyway, that struck me as odd. I just wanted to mention that before I got into these other things.
Todd Huff: Headline here at The Guardian says this: “We’re pastors. The fight against MAGA Christianity starts locally.” This is written—I think there's a tandem of people here that wrote this. Their names are Doug Padgett—again, if I mispronounce, forgive me—and Pagan Lori Walk, W-A-L-K-E, there's an E on the end of that.
Todd Huff: “Trump’s movement has used the Christian faith to fuel oppression,” this article says. “This is not bad, by the way. Here’s how we are standing against it.” You know, it's interesting to me when you look at the arguments presented by people on the left side, the left side of the aisle.
Todd Huff: And I don't know these pastors. I don't know their theology or whatever. But I definitely have problems with the premise here. Trump has used the Christian faith to fuel oppression. Trump is fueling oppression using the faith of followers of Jesus to fuel oppression.
Todd Huff: Those are bold. Those are bold words. I challenge the premise in every conceivable way here. This makes no sense to me in a sane world. And so they've created this—they've created this narrative that says Trump is using the Christian faith to fuel the oppression.
Todd Huff: And so we're fighting against it. That's how they say it. I'm just going to share their words and we'll talk about this along the way. “Donald Trump wants us to believe that the war on Christianity is spreading across the globe.” “The US President recently sounded the alarm on, quote, ‘the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria,’ while threatening a US invasion of the African nation.” We shouldn't be surprised—everything for a moment.
Todd Huff: Listen, I haven't gone lately, but there are sites where you can go and find persecution information on the persecution of Christians around the world. One of those sites—one of those sites is—well, I guess it's now persecution.com.
Todd Huff: The organization is called The Voice of the Martyrs, and usually they produce—I think—a yearly report on persecution around the world. And there's a map here on their homepage. I'm looking at it right now.
Todd Huff: I'm looking at it right now that says Niger—hold on here, clicked on the wrong—the wrong country. Nigeria. I'm just going to read. I'm just going to read. I'm reading right now from persecution.com.
Todd Huff: This is The Voice of the Martyrs website. These are individuals who have committed their lives, their professional—you know, what they do as a vocation here—to educate us on what's happening in countries around the world when it comes to persecution for Christian faith.
Todd Huff: They put here “mass slaughter” in quotations, these pastors. I just want to read to you what The Voice of the Martyrs has to say here. They say this: “Nigeria is almost evenly divided between Muslims, who are the majority in the north, and Christians, who are the majority in the south.”
Todd Huff: “There are more than 80 million professing Christians in Africa's most populous nation, the fruit of both pioneer mission work and freed slaves who returned to the continent from Europe with the gospel following the 1833 abolition of slavery in England.”
Todd Huff: “Foreign missionary activity in the north has declined significantly since 2008 as a result of the emergence of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.” Crazy, insane radical Islamic terrorists based in the north. Boko Haram is affiliated with Al Qaeda—that's of course Osama bin Laden's outfit there—and has aligned itself with the self-proclaimed Islamic State. That is ISIS.
Todd Huff: So that's who Boko Haram is aligned with, affiliated with, and so forth. The people that are cutting folks' heads off and torturing them and brutal—not just obviously killing is bad enough, but they're torturing.
Todd Huff: They're trying to make this as prolonged—the suffering is prolonged—and as dramatic as possible. I've seen people dragged behind vehicles. Just brutal, brutal stuff here. Boko Haram has weakened somewhat in the northeast. It still carries out devastating, devastating attacks on Christian communities and on army units in the region.
Todd Huff: Boko Haram is also reportedly backing ongoing attacks—wait a minute, I didn't think they put this in quotations in their stupid little article here—devastating attacks on Christian villages by militant Fulani Muslims.
Todd Huff: Who have concentrated their attacks in the central region of Nigeria. Terrorist groups and other Muslims in the north want to drive Christians out of the region and continue their push to create a separate nation governed by Islamic law. There you go. That's of course Sharia law, which is where we have people here in this country—Muslims here all around the world—calling for Sharia law.
Todd Huff: The major religion in Nigeria—51 percent of Nigerians, according to again The Voice of the Martyrs here—are Christians. The nation is divided between Christians and Sunni Muslims, with most Christians in the south and most Muslims in the north.
Todd Huff: Boko Haram Islamic—the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group and militant Fulani Muslims both attack Christians throughout northern Nigeria. So it's got information. It has this on every country, every country around the world. And there's a massive problem there. Lots of—in fact, the hostile nations to Christianity around the world.
Todd Huff: Hostile not just—listen, it's not just there's restricted nations. If you look at the map here, these are countries that make it difficult. For the Christian faith, people who practice Christianity. They restrict it. They make it difficult. They don't give you true freedom of religion. But nations that are hostile—hostile to the gospel or the faith—include the following countries.
Todd Huff: It's going to take me a minute to get through these. Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.
Todd Huff: Those are all in, of course, Africa. We have some hostilities in Mexico, some hostilities in Nicaragua, some hostilities in Colombia. Some hostilities, if you go to the South Pacific, in Indonesia.
Todd Huff: In the Philippines, in Nepal, in Asia, and in Bangladesh. In Asia. That's what they have on their map. The idea that—listen—Christians around the world, I'm not just talking here in the United States.
Todd Huff: Because it's different here. There certainly is a war on truth. There's certainly a lot of hatred directed at Christians. I'm not saying that that's not the case, but it's nothing compared to what people face around the world.
Todd Huff: I instead of being so upset at Trump here for doing what—for responding to what's happening in Nigeria—why don't these pastors, who probably, you know, get on their virtue signaling high horses here. Which I'm sure they will in this article about something Trump said or done or the way he behaved.
Todd Huff: What about the actual extermination and murder and genocide happening around the world? When it comes to groups like Christians in some countries. But they continue here. “We shouldn't be surprised,” they say, “that Trump wanted to use the mass slaughter”—which they put in quotations—“of Christians in Nigeria to threaten the US invasion of that African nation.”
Todd Huff: This falls, they say, right in line with Trump's ongoing attempts to project MAGA Christianity onto the global stage and crack down on religious freedom. Just who's cracking down on the freedom here?
Todd Huff: Isn't it the people who are murdering Christians? And not a word about that. Not a word about that. Pastor Doug Padgett. Pastor Walk—no—just quotation about—what are you saying, it's not happening?
Todd Huff: Are you so blinded by your politics that you don't care about that real problem? This is sickening to me. His attempts to project MAGA Christianity—what does—listen. You can have objections to using military force in an instance like this. But to pretend like this is no big deal and that this is being blown out of proportion by Trump is, I think, a gross under—under exaggeration.
Todd Huff: I guess I would say. I don't know. It's not dealing with the reality of the circumstances here. So more to say about this. I'm up, my friends, up against the clock here. Which is telling me I've got to wrap things up this segment. And as a skilled and highly trained broadcast professional, I am going to oblige and make sure that we respect the time clock.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Just going through this article here published at The Guardian, where these couple of pastors are more upset at what they call MAGA Christianity and Donald Trump than they appear to be at the people slaughtering and murdering Christians in Nigeria, which is mind boggling to me.
Todd Huff: Mind boggling. Blind rage, my friends, will cause one to conclude things like these pastors. They continue. “MAGA Christianity,” they write, “represents a self-serving, commercialized version of the Christian faith.” Putting power over service and empathy, and it is everywhere in our federal government. Let me pause for a moment. Let me—let me pause for a moment. Number one, there's a lot of conflating going on here.
Todd Huff: I don't know what they mean when they—you know, they're trying to brand this Trump and people who voted for Trump who are Christians as quote unquote MAGA Christians. I would never in a million years consider myself a MAGA Christian.
Todd Huff: Listen, my friends, I am a Christian. I am a follower of Jesus. There's no other descriptors. Sometimes I would say conservative Christian to communicate that we're not in the quote unquote progressive crowd, which is really regressive.
Todd Huff: But there's—I don't need any other disclaimer here, or I guess term, to quantify my faith. I've been a follower of Jesus since 1993, long before MAGA was a thing.
Todd Huff: And I'll be a follower of Jesus as long as he tarries and as long as my life on this planet is—you know—I'm here and living my life. I will follow him long after MAGA, the MAGA movement, or the Trump MAGA leadership.
Todd Huff: Or whatever you want to call it, ceases to be an active thing here in this country. And I'm not here—listen—I know that there's commercialized versions of Christianity. There are.
Todd Huff: There are some things that go on in churches that are clearly not biblical. All over. The problems are all over the place, right? I mean, some water down the gospel and don't want to really address the culture head on.
Todd Huff: Other denominations or certain pastors or whatever you want to call these folks will go to the pulpit wearing their rainbow attire. It's all over the place, my friends. I saw a video of a pastor recently coming out as trans from the pulpit. I don't know if you saw that, Oz, but regardless, I mean, there's lots of problems.
Todd Huff: This is not to say there's no problems with American Christianity. That's not the point. The point here is to say, I guess, that people who voted for Trump and who call themselves Christians represent a self-serving, commercialized version of the Christian faith. That's a bold statement. It's a bold statement to make. My version of Christianity is not commercialized.
Todd Huff: Putting power over service and empathy—I don't know. First of all, I don't know if the word—maybe it is—I don't know that empathy is a word that's in the Bible. Not to say there's anything wrong with that. Sometimes people think that they're morally superior because they are empathetic, which of course illustrates another problem with the human heart and pride.
Todd Huff: But politics, my friends, the government is about power. I've said this on this program for a long, long time. Government is force. Government is force. That's why we want as little of it as possible. We want as little government as possible because government is force. Force is not a good thing.
Todd Huff: We want the government to be able to do what the government should be doing, but nothing more. This is why a growing government matters so much. You want—you know, if you look at the political continuum, on the one end you've got total control by the authoritarians.
Todd Huff: On the other end you've got absolute anarchy. And so both of those extremes are problems. So we say, look, clearly, if we could live someplace, we would have it be the one end that's freedom. But freedom with protecting people. There has to be a sense of law and order and a just society has to be able to develop.
Todd Huff: You just can't have a complete free-for-all. And all that would come from that. God instituted government, by the way. Doesn't mean that God likes what all these government officials have done. That's not the case at all.
Todd Huff: But government is something that God created for, you know, for us to manage our lives here, this side—this side of heaven. And so power is government. We just want to make it limited. This is what I don't—people just either intentionally don't understand this or don't really sit down and think about this.
Todd Huff: Government is ultimately force. Government is force. That's why, where the government steps in and we have given it authority to do something, we've basically said you're in charge of this. We're not. Right? That's why it's important that we have the consent of the governed here in our nation.
Todd Huff: So—and again—government should be governing. What do you mean serve? I understand public service, by the way. Where were these folks when people were caught abusing their power? Maybe they were out there. I don't know. But I don't remember reading their articles.
Todd Huff: Where were they when people were corruptly abusing their powers or trying to enrich themselves? Where were they? That's certainly not service.But they continue. They say that MAGA Christianity is everywhere in our federal government. In February, Trump announced the task force led by Pam Bondi.
Todd Huff: With the goal of rooting out anti-Christian bias. What's wrong with that? Again, if there are anti-whatever biases, I don't understand what is wrong with trying to eradicate that. I mean, the idea that Christianity has been the focus of cultural attack—or even in some cases governmental—I don't want to call it persecution.
Todd Huff: Maybe the beginning stages of real persecution, I don't know. But certainly some organizations and Christians have been targeted. Have we not seen—I know it's another country—but what's happened in Canada or the UK, to where you can't preach the gospel?
Todd Huff: You can't share the truth in some instances without fear of being arrested. You can't pray. There's places you can't pray. Even in your heart and mind, not even verbally. That's not—how is that—where are these folks in places like that?
Todd Huff: We should be rooting out bias that's baked into our government. There are people that hate Christians. There are people who hate me. I've seen them. I saw them recently at the State House. Regardless, I just—how does this mean it's self-serving MAGA Christianity?
Todd Huff: I think Christians have seen these things happening for a long time and realize they have to be stopped. What's wrong with stopping them? Why should we let them continue? We've got the full power to stop the nonsense. I don't understand any of this.
Todd Huff: In September, they write, Trump announced his plans to protect prayer in schools. What is the big deal about that? You know, do they not have—I mean—what should their biblical education—what's their education on America's Christian heritage?
Todd Huff: And the role of prayer and faith in the very foundations of our republic. What is—where have these folks been? It's like they just woke up and have no idea that these things are happening or that they're bad. I mean, are they against praying in schools? What is going on here? Are they not familiar with the First Amendment? They're not familiar with the story of Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego or whatever?
Todd Huff: These are pastors. I don't—what are they talking about here? Later that month, they write, Trump issued a memorandum identifying anti-Christianity as a potential driver of terrorism. Well, I mean, listen—yes. What is so hard to believe about that? Do they not pay attention to what other groups say? I mean, it is remarkable to me.
Todd Huff: Of course, these things can be a driver of terrorism. Why would they not? I mean, are they unfamiliar with the lack of hatred? The Bible says don't be surprised when the world hates you, my friends, because it first hated Him.
Todd Huff: Jesus. What in the world? Where have these pastors been? Who educated these folks? What Bible are they reading here? “These,” they write, “are not just one-off incidents.” I don't know that any of that is an incident. What are you talking about? This is a national effort to push a MAGA Christianity agenda on Americans.
Todd Huff: And we're already seeing the consequences. They're not seeing anything. These people are blinded to reality. I—I cannot—I don't even know what they're trying to say here. Friends, I gotta take a break. Let me ask you something.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Final segment here before we are off a few days for Christmas. Again, Gary Varvel will be in tomorrow, Christmas Eve, with a special Christmas Eve message.
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Todd Huff: “The MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants.” First of all—first of all—nobody's being oppressed. There is a law. Do you know that? We are a nation of laws. The Book of Romans talks about submitting to the authorities.
Todd Huff: The authorities here are not so much the people in office—I don't think that's the right way of looking at it—you should respect them, don't misunderstand me. But the authorities here is the rule of law. The laws on the books are exactly what's happening in this country. It's—they've just been ignored for so long.
Todd Huff: And they think it's some virtue to not enforce the law. If you are here in this country illegally, you shall—you can be deported. That's the consequence. They'll say, “Well, it's not a crime,” and all this sort of stuff. It's against the law. And it is something that if you're found to be here illegally, you can absolutely be deported.
Todd Huff: That is the law. How is that oppression? And how are they using their Christian faith to oppress immigrants? “To oppose the rights of women.” Oh yes, the rights of women. You know, the Bible does talk about—in the New Testament—Paul writes about it.
Todd Huff: Women submitting to their husband. Well, that's—that's upsetting to a lot of folks. I think that there's a misunderstanding about what that really means. I think there's a misunderstanding. Feminism is so insidious. I think it's—even for those of us who seek the truth of feminism, I've come to realize this.
Todd Huff: Has done a number—done a number—on this society. On our culture. On our men and women. By the way, submission doesn't mean that you cease to have a voice. Or an opinion or anything like that. It is—it is submitting to the leadership of your husband, who, by the way, in that same passage.
Todd Huff: The Bible says he's supposed to give his life for his wife. I feel like that's a little bit more serious of an instruction there. And of course those things are necessary. Everybody says, “Well, I'm not submitting to him.” “I'm not giving my life for her.”
Todd Huff: Just shut it and do what you're supposed to do, because that's the order and design here. What do you mean oppress—or what is it—what are they saying here? “They've opposed the rights of women because they can't murder their children.”
Todd Huff: What in the world? Where would you have been, pastors, when the edict was given by the Egyptian emperor—the Pharaoh—to murder all the newborn babies? Would you have been angry with the Hebrew midwives? Go back to the story in Exodus with the birth of Moses.
Todd Huff: Would you have been angry that these women were not following the edict of the emperor—the Pharaoh—to murder these babies? Where were you for that? Where were you when it was done—this sort of thing was done—when Jesus was born too? Herod knew that there was a king that was born, a king that the Jewish people were looking forward to.
Todd Huff: And he wanted to make sure that he killed this king and he didn't have any opposition. He failed. Jesus and his family fled to Egypt. But what are they talking about? “Opposing the rights of women and condemning the LGBTQ community.”
Todd Huff: Folks, I have nothing in common with—I don't know what their ideology is or their theology, more importantly here. But—forgive me here—let's see if we can just offend everybody today—but the LGBTQ community, I'm not—so listen.
Todd Huff: Condemnation is not my job, necessarily. But to be able to say that something is sinful, that we have to have the right to do that. As Christians, my friends, it's not to condemn the people; it is to call out sin. The whole purpose of Christianity is to seek forgiveness and to repent from my sin and to cease to be—as much as possible in the sight of heaven.
Todd Huff: That person that lived in sin. I should turn from it. I shouldn't embrace it. I shouldn't say, “Don't talk bad about it.” I should say, “Let's admit what it is and let's turn from it.” Let's agree with God that it is wrong. These folks do a lot of damage. You don't have to go out and just berate people constantly.
Todd Huff: But to say that you can't call out sin and call people to repentance, I would say that is antithetical to the gospel. The gospel is for everybody, my friends. Jesus has come to this world. We celebrate his birth this week. And here in a couple days. And it doesn't matter—all these things—these things matter, certainly.
Todd Huff: But wherever you are today, it doesn't matter. Jesus died for you. Whatever you believe politically, religiously, that relationship with Christ and the beginning of the transformation he can bring upon you. Is critical this Christmas season. I gotta go. Merry Christmas. SDG.
