#188: Meet the Women of Christmas
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Do you believe that God uses women in beautiful, meaningful and pivotal ways? On this Java with Juli, meet Elizabeth, Mary and Anna; three women who, in the midst of their brokenness, were part of God’s wondrous to plan give us the gift of Jesus. Grab your favorite holiday mug, sit back and experience the Christmas story through the eyes of these three courageous women.
Guest: Liz Curtis Higgs
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas from Authentic Inimacy, and welcome to a special Christmas edition of Java with Julie. |
| 0:08.0 | And if you are listening on Christmas Day, thank you so much for sharing part of this special day with us. |
| 0:13.5 | We have a great show for you today, but you might be listening on December 26 or December 28th after Christmas. |
| 0:21.6 | And if so, I'd encourage you to hang with us because the conversation we're about to have with Liz Curtis Higgs is a conversation that will lift you up any day of the year, including even in January. |
| 0:33.6 | We had Liz Curtis Higgs on our show last week, and we talked about her book, Bad Girls of the Bible, and she shared a bit of her testimony. |
| 0:41.9 | And I asked her to come back with us today, and we recorded remotely because she's in Kentucky right now. |
| 0:47.6 | But to share about her book, The Women of Christmas. |
| 0:51.5 | And we are going to get into three women of Christmas and just how their |
| 0:55.9 | lives are different from ours, but also how they relate to ours. And so I'd encourage you |
| 1:00.8 | after the conversation to hang around. This is also the last episode of 2017 for Job with Julie. |
| 1:08.1 | So we're going to do a quick year-end review. And I'm going to share with you some highlights that I'm excited about for 2018. |
| 1:14.4 | So enjoy the conversation, and I'll talk to you after the show. |
| 1:18.7 | And Liz, you've spent a lot of years ministering around the idea of these bad girls of the Bible and the redemption that God can bring and has brought in your life. |
| 1:28.9 | But you also have written many, many other books and one that we're going to talk about today |
| 1:33.7 | because we are upon Christmas is the women of Christmas, who we don't traditionally think of as |
| 1:41.8 | bad girls. |
| 1:42.6 | Do you? |
| 1:43.8 | Well, no. You don't really want to use a word like bad when you're talking about Elizabeth or Mary. |
| 1:52.1 | However, they all have a brokenness. They all have a situation in their life that was surely challenging. |
| 2:01.6 | And that was part of God's big, beautiful plan for bringing his son into this world. |
| 2:08.6 | And so, yeah, I didn't call it Good Girls of the Bible just because of my stance that all of us have badness that needs God's forgiveness. |
| 2:25.0 | But they are some of the remarkable women, the exemplary women, the role model kind of women, |
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