Hear Him Heal You
This podcast is for those who are looking to experience the Savior more in their lives because of the peace and healing that only He can offer through revelation. Come unto Christ to get out of the mental mire, find meaning in emotion, leave bad behind, and finally, be whole. This is where we hear Him to be healed.
Hear Him Heal You
We Celebrate His Birth So We Can Follow His Life
What if the warm feeling we chase in December is only the starting line? Morgan opens up about beloved family traditions and then asks a harder, more honest question: do our songs and stories move us closer to the living Christ, or do they leave us lingering at the manger? We trace a line from childhood Christmas readings to Joseph Smith’s search for truth, and we sit with the scriptures that warn about honoring God with our lips while our hearts stay far away.
From there, we pivot toward a practical, hopeful path. The wise men become a pattern for modern discipleship: costly gifts, real distance traveled, risks taken to reach Jesus. We look at how the Savior left the manger to teach, suffer, atone, die, and rise—and why celebrating only His infancy keeps us from the power of His adult ministry. Morgan names simple, concrete ways to turn nostalgia into transformation: reorder your schedule around scripture and prayer, trade polite reverence for repentance, bring generosity that pinches, and let carols become commitments that last beyond December.
By the end, you’ll have a clear invitation to move: admire the manger, then step into a year‑round relationship with Christ where obedience, faith, and connection reshape your days. If you’re ready to give more than words and receive more than a mood, this conversation is your nudge to lay down your gifts and follow Him. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves Christmas, and tell us: what will you bring to His feet this week?
Welcome to Hear Him Heal You with Morgan and Joel. This podcast is for those who are imperfect and rough around the edges, but are still wanting to come under Christ. Essentially, it's for everyone. So join us to get yourself out of the mental mire, find meaning in emotion, and leave bad behind. This is where we hear him to be healed. All right. Welcome back to another episode of Hear Him Heal You. Um, our last one was done by Joel. This one will be by yours truly, Morgan. So technically you call this a Morgan message, but really this is one I wanted to do for Christmas. Um I come from a family where we did celebrate Christmas. I I I loved it. We did a lot of fun traditions. One of those traditions being that we would read a Christmas story each day of the month up until Christmas. Um, and these were these special Christmas stories that had different meanings. And it's the one tradition that I always think back on, or when people ask me, what does your family do for Christmas? It's the ones that have stuck with me. Because we would always look forward to family scripture study every December because we would finally get to stop reading the scriptures and do our Christmas stories. Maybe not the best attitude as a as a little kid, but but yeah, it was our favorite. And there were definitely times where I felt like growing up, like I don't remember any of the gifts that I were given, I was given. This has just gotten me thinking that sometimes, especially during this Christmas season, we lose sight of what Christmas is about. And I'm sure we all we hear this message a lot in the church as members, where it's like Christmas isn't about Santa, it's not about the gifts, it's about Christ. And that is true. And I guess I want to add to that without sounding redundant or sounding like another another message like that. But I do want to, I don't want to like also overshadow the this time of season. I think this time of season is nostalgic for all of us. We love to go see all the lights. Christmas lights are some of the best part, one of the best traditions of Christmas time. We love all, I know plenty of people who start playing Christmas music in November and then they start looking forward to their family traditions like gingerbread houses or caroling or just like having all these different family functions, and it's meant to bring families together. And I'm not I don't want to talk down about the this time of year either, because I feel like there's a special spirit, there's a special desire to connect with those around us. And but there is more to it that I think we could start incorporating into these this time of year. And the reason why my mind is going to this, and I'm gonna start in a really interesting spot, and then I'll wrap it back around to the savior. So recently I've been uh meeting with a friend with the missionaries, and our last lesson we had with the missionaries was the talking about the restoration. And something that I connected the dots on during this time of year in the restoration was Joseph Smith was looking for a time like when he was he went through where he was searching for the truth, right? Funny enough, his family was kind of divided. Part of his family went to one church, the other half went to another, and then some of them, like his brother and his father, didn't go to any church. But they were very spiritual. They, it seems to me that they would read the Bible together quite often and they would have gospel discussions, and these weighed heavy on Joseph Smith's heart. And obviously, everyone knows that because of these yearnings for truth and connection to God to know what to do, to do what's right, he eventually went and prayed and he received the first vision, right? And in that vision, uh, Joseph Smith saw God the Father and and Jesus Christ, and he asked them which of these churches are true. And he was essentially told not to join any of them. And there's one part, and this comes from Joseph Smith History 119. I'm just gonna read a one phrase. And this is what they what Christ said about other other religions and churches, and this has weighed very heavily on my mind because I think we there's plenty of times of year where we do this, where we we draw near unto Christ with our lips, but our hearts are not in it. And sometimes it's I think that's easiest done during the Christmas time. I think we love to engage in all the nostalgia and all the tradition of Christmas. And in our minds, we're like, this is for Christ. But little does those nostalgic times, decorations, traditions, all of that, those things, rarely does it have an internal change for us. And and this isn't the only time Christ uses this language either. He does say this similarly in Matthew 15, 8 through 9, where he's speaking to people, they speak devotion, but they once again they withhold their hearts from him. And he kind of alludes to that they replace God's will with human tradition. And I think in a lot of ways, we're replacing the celebration with human tradition. And I think some of those traditions are great. Like we want things that brings families families together and make us feel good. And I'm not once again not trying to speak down to those. But Christmas is just full of words and songs and symbols of Christ, but it is possible that we're speaking his name and singing about his birth and celebrating his story while always stopping short of actually giving him our hearts. It's kind of like we linger at the manger, but never follow him into discipleship. And I think that is something I really want to speak to during this year is similarly, I want us just how we approach the sacrament table on each Sunday, I think this is a time of year where we can approach the manger and just like the wise men lay down a gift at his feet. And just as Christ left the manger and went on to do great things, I think we can follow Christ from the manger and become great through him as well. Because really what I want out of this Christmas time for myself and for everyone around me is not just singing songs of Christ or putting up fancy decorations or connecting just with loved ones or feeling a happy feeling during this time of year. What I want them to do, and what I want everyone to do, is I want them to sing the song of redeeming love. I want them to feel Christ's power in their lives more because of this Christmas season. I want them to adorn their lives with obedience and faithfulness and repentance. I want them to go from just connecting with loved ones to connecting with God and our Savior Jesus Christ. And that's what I want this Christmas time to be for myself, too. And maybe this is this podcast is mainly for me. I think that is part of why I'm doing this, is because I think this year I felt like maybe I've been too I've done too much lip service and not enough heart service. And just like this idea of where wise men traveled great lengths and rough terrain and had to avoid a murderous king to lay down gold, frankincense, and myrrh at Christ's feet. I want us similarly to I want us to go to great lengths to love Christ. I want us to traverse things in our lives that we've been putting off to finally just lay down our golden gifts and our frankincense and our myrrh, personal devotion and sacrifice our weaknesses and our sins at the manger as well. Because this Christmas time wouldn't be celebrated had Cra Christ not left the manger and developed into who would become our Savior, who would go out and preach the gospel, establish a church on this earth that would one day be restored, and obviously the most important part had he not entered the Garden of Gethsemane and pay the price for sin and take upon him our ailments and our pains and our afflictions and our despair, our emotional turmoil, and then also go on to die on the cross for us. And then one and be laid in the tomb to three days later be resurrected and break the bonds of death, which would also mean we would have the opportunity to receive a perfect body that isn't subject to degradation or or disability or any of those things. Because just like it says in 1 Peter 2 24, he bore our sins on the cross so that we might live unto righteousness. And just like in 1 Corinthians 15 declares, he rose again to break the bands of death. I think we do a dis ourselves a disfavor and Christ a disfavor if we only celebrate him as an infant. It's like the easiest way to believe and celebrate Christ is to le believe in his infancy. It's much harder, I believe, to believe in a in a savior and a God that would willingly come down from heaven, take up a mortal body like us, have the power and the strength to be perfect in a world wrought with temptation and sin, and then willingly take upon him the most excruciating pain that anybody has ever experienced in this life, and then give up his life completely, utterly, just so he could love us better, he could free us from our imperfections, from even mortal circumstances we can't control, and one day give us the promise of having a resurrected body. That's why I feel like sometimes Christmas feels more like lip service because we only choose to during that time celebrate the infancy of Christ when 99% is left out because he left that manger. He grew up, and he became the savior we have today. The Lord also wants more than just words. He's not satisfied with merely us saying his name or celebrating his birthday or just admiring his story. It is a beautiful story, it's a great story. There's lots of great examples in Mary and Joseph and the wise men and the shepherds, and you it's great to see these examples of faith, but I think there's more to the story. And I'm not saying everyone forgets about Christ. I guess what I'm trying to say is I just want this to be my reminder to myself and to my loved ones and anyone that hears this that I want more for myself than just giving Christ my words. And I want more for everyone to then to just give his words. Yeah, I I really want this special Christmas feeling to last 12 months instead of just 24 days, 25 days. Because through Christ, we can have the Christmas feeling year-round. Because the sense of renewal, this sense of connection, the sense of light that we feel during Christmas, it's because of who the our Savior is. It's not because of this time of year. We could have Christmas in April, we could have Christmas in September, like because Christ is always giving out his gift willingly and abundantly, daily, monthly, yearly. It's never ending. So why should we limit our Christmas devotion to one month and one day? And so I guess just as like the wise men of old laid down gifts, I want us to become wise men and lay down our gift of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And I want to avoid, I guess, what Christ told Joseph Smith in the first vision, that we're just drawing near unto him with our lips and not our hearts. And just like how during that time there was creeds, professors, commandments of men reminded us, reminds me of how how easy it is to give seemingly good devotion through culture and tradition, which is really replacing real devotion, especially during this Christmas time. And just I guess when we when you hear this or you're done listening to this, just remember, do we really want to draw near to Christ with our lips at Christmas? Or do we want to keep our hearts, schedules, money, and sins for ourselves and never really give up our feelings, our time, our means, and even like the things we want to hold back from Christ? Or do we really want to give those away? So I think with that said, I just want to invite everyone to move. If you're just admiring the manger and the Christ child, move past it. Put the gifts at his feet and continue on the journey of discipleship with him. Because he grew up and he's inviting us now to come unto him as our fully grown savior. Because he doesn't just want our lip service, he wants our whole self, and he's gonna give us a Christmas gift in return. So, with that said, Merry Christmas, Lil Flock, despair not, build upon the rock, do good, and always hear him. We'll see ya.