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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

313. Theologians Who Love Christmas

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What do Charles Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and R.C. Sproul have in common? Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols explains the love for Christmas that these gifted theologians shared.

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Hi, I'm Steve Nichols, and thanks for joining me for another episode of Five Minutes in

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Church History.

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In a few days, we will be celebrating Christmas, and so we reached back into our archives and

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found this episode on Christmas.

0:13.3

I hope you enjoy it as you celebrate Christmas with your friends and family.

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Thanks so much for listening to Five Minutes in Church History.

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Well, happy December 26th to you, the day after Christmas, as we have this episode of Five

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Minutes in Church History on this episode, I thought I would share with you three theologians

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who love Christmas.

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The first one we come across is Dietrich Bonnefer.

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He loved Christmas, gave many Christmas sermons.

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One of them he gave actually was on Mary in the Advent, and here's what he says, surely

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from now on, all generations will call me blessed, since Mary joyfully.

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Well, what does it mean to call her blessed, Mary, this lowly-made servant?

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It can only mean that we worship an amazement, the miracle that has been performed in her,

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that we see in her how God regards and raises up the lowly.

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To call Mary blessed does not mean to build altars to her, but rather it means to worship

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with her the God who regards and chooses the lowly, who has done great things for me,

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as Mary says.

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And remember, it was Mary who said, holy is his name, Bonnefer concludes, to call Mary

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blessed means to know with her that God's mercy is for those who fear him from generation

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to generation.

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