746. Focus Your Heart on the Reason for the Season (+ Free Gift!)

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Every time the Christmas season comes around, we look forward to putting up a tree, giving and receiving gifts, and participating in other traditions that make this wonderful time of year so special. But sometimes, the most significant aspect of the season — remembering the birth of Jesus — grows old and familiar.

What better way to focus your heart on Christ than with a 25-day Bible reading plan?

We're excited to give away a brand-new free resource from Paul Tripp Ministries: the Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional. This downloadable ebook includes 25 daily readings by Paul, each paired with a Scripture passage and a prayer.

In today’s episode, we’ll share the introduction and the December 1 entry to help you meditate on the true reason for the season.

To download your free copy and follow along every day until Christmas, go to PaulTripp.com/Christmas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp
0:10.0	connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Every time the Christmas season comes
0:15.6	around, we look forward to putting up a tree, giving and receiving gifts, and participating in other
0:20.6	traditions that
0:21.3	make this wonderful time of the year so special. But sometimes the most significant aspect of
0:26.2	the season, remembering the birth of Jesus, grows old and familiar. What better way to focus
0:32.2	your heart on Christ than with a 25-day Bible reading plan. We're excited to give away a brand new free resource
0:38.8	from Paul Trip Ministries,
0:40.2	the everyday gospel Christmas devotional.
0:43.0	This downloadable e-book includes 25 daily readings from Paul,
0:46.9	each paired with a scripture passage and a prayer.
0:49.7	In today's episode, I'll read the introduction
0:51.7	and the December 1st entry to help you meditate
0:54.0	on the true
0:54.4	reason for the season. To download your free copy and follow along every day until Christmas,
0:59.7	go to paultrip.com slash Christmas.
1:05.8	I love Christmas. You would struggle to find someone as enthusiastic as Paul Tripp about all the festivities that fill
1:14.2	a typical December calendar.
1:16.2	I love baking Christmas cookies, decorating Christmas trees, we have three, attending Christmas
1:21.2	concerts and shopping for Christmas gifts for loved ones.
1:24.8	Yet simultaneously, this season makes me sad. The chaotic, cultural emphasis on Christmas
1:30.2	has flipped the true meaning of Advent upside down. What should be a celebratory and reflective
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