Embracing the Transformative Joy of Christmas
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"Anxiety makes you smaller. It focuses you, right? Anxiety focuses you, which is great. If you're being chased by a polar bear or a Yeti, right? If you're being chased by a polar bear or a Yeti, absolutely. Be focused. Know what you're about. But listen, you don't want to live your whole life with alarm bells going off. Alert, alert, alert, alert. It's a terrible way to live. It makes you so, so small, so focused, but so narrow. And you miss so many other things going on." [00:04:20] (25 seconds)
"When you get your hearts and your minds around what God has done at Christmas time, it releases a whole different type of energy. It displaces anxiety or fear or ambition or worry or guilt or shame. When you start to peer deeply into what God has done here at Christmas time, it has the power to make you this person who lives full of wonder and joy." [00:06:06] (23 seconds)
"Take a look at what God has done. He has, incarnation means that God has just sort of put on flesh to become one of us. Here's what God has done. And this is crazy. And if you're willing to camp out here, if you're willing to give this space in your heart and your mind, this will totally change your disposition. Totally change your life. Release all kinds of joy and hopefulness." [00:06:57] (16 seconds)
"When you come to wrap your minds around the good news that God has put on flesh to redeem all flesh, to make all humanity sort of a part of God's, presence a part of God's grace and mercy. To weave us into God's sort of good news. His redemptive work. The one perfect human being who finally obeys God all the way even to death on a cross. For your sins and my sins." [00:07:21] (21 seconds)
"The son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful, powerful word." [00:09:28] (11 seconds)
"God himself has sent his very own son to give us his word, to tell us what's true, what's right, what's right. What's good. Tell us what's true about God, about humanity, about what's wrong in the world, and how God is going to make it right. He's going to talk about it. He's going to live it out. He's going to demonstrate what it means to be God's man, God's person." [00:12:17] (18 seconds)
"The son stands outside of time. He creates the film. He creates the whole film strip. He sees the end of the film. He sees the end of time. He stands outside of it. He can see the whole thing beginning to end. And the author of Hebrews says, here's this crazy thing. The one who created the whole thing, the one to whom the whole thing is going to, he inserts himself into the film, into the timeline, to redeem the whole mess." [00:14:38] (25 seconds)
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"When you get your hearts and your minds around what God has done at Christmas time, it releases a whole different type of energy. It displaces anxiety or fear or ambition or worry or guilt or shame. When you start to peer deeply into what God has done here at Christmas time, it has the power to make you this person who lives full of wonder and joy." [00:06:06] (23 seconds)
"Take a look at what God has done. He has, incarnation means that God has just sort of put on flesh to become one of us. Here's what God has done. And this is crazy. And if you're willing to camp out here, if you're willing to give this space in your heart and your mind, this will totally change your disposition. Totally change your life. Release all kinds of joy and hopefulness." [00:06:57] (16 seconds)
"When you come to wrap your minds around the good news that God has put on flesh to redeem all flesh, to make all humanity sort of a part of God's, presence a part of God's grace and mercy. To weave us into God's sort of good news. His redemptive work. The one perfect human being who finally obeys God all the way even to death on a cross. For your sins and my sins." [00:07:21] (21 seconds)
"The son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful, powerful word." [00:09:28] (11 seconds)
"God himself has sent his very own son to give us his word, to tell us what's true, what's right, what's right. What's good. Tell us what's true about God, about humanity, about what's wrong in the world, and how God is going to make it right. He's going to talk about it. He's going to live it out. He's going to demonstrate what it means to be God's man, God's person." [00:12:17] (18 seconds)
"The son stands outside of time. He creates the film. He creates the whole film strip. He sees the end of the film. He sees the end of time. He stands outside of it. He can see the whole thing beginning to end. And the author of Hebrews says, here's this crazy thing. The one who created the whole thing, the one to whom the whole thing is going to, he inserts himself into the film, into the timeline, to redeem the whole mess." [00:14:38] (25 seconds)
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