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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Access More. |
0:04.0 | During today's conversation on back porch theology, the whole gang, |
0:12.0 | Ali, Dr. Howard Bell and me have gathered together to |
0:15.2 | celebrate Christmas. We're talking all things you'll with y'all. Okay I know that was so |
0:21.0 | cheesy but egg nogg and fruit cake tend to activate my dorky sentimental side. |
0:25.8 | And while we are going to take a stroll down memory lane today, |
0:29.6 | we're also going to talk about how the miracle of the incarnation should inform and permeate the |
0:36.8 | other 364 days of our calendars. |
0:40.1 | J.I. Packer explained the magnitude of Christmas like this. |
0:45.0 | It is here in the thing that happened at the first Christmas |
0:48.0 | that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. |
0:55.2 | The word became flesh. |
0:57.6 | God became a man, the divine son became a Jew, |
1:00.4 | the Almighty appeared on Earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and |
1:06.1 | wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. |
1:12.1 | And there was no illusion or deception in this, the baby hood of the |
1:16.8 | son of God was a reality. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing |
1:22.3 | in fiction is so fantastic as is |
1:26.0 | this truth of the incarnation. I've thought about Dr. Packer's observation often these |
1:32.0 | past few weeks of Advent about how our holy |
1:35.0 | transcendent creator-redeemer condescended to earth and a suit of skin to be born |
1:39.7 | in a Bethlehem barn. Australian theologian theologian theologian John Nolan actually refers to the |
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