A Thrill of Hope: Nadia Bolz-Weber Uncovers the Unlikely Miracles of Christmas

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Christmas holds so many truths all at once, as it has for thousands of years. And today, Jen’s friend, pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, leads us to look with several new lenses at the story we’ve heard since we were toddling around in snowman footie pajamas. There’s the beauty of a young family shepherding a new life into the world, amid brutal oppression from a power-hungry empire. There’s the unwed teenage girl who’s told she will carry the savior of the world while a disdainful religious culture watches her belly swell. Through it all, we get a glimpse at Mary’s fierce desire to honor her Creator, and the tremendous power held in the way she accepts this divine assignment. As Nadia takes us through the Christmas story, she points out how God moves through the world by turning the notions of “power” and “blessing” upside down while lifting up the voiceless and the oppressed, reminding us that “being ‘blessed’ means seeing God in the world and trusting that God is at work even in things we can't see, understand, or imagine.”

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.3	Hey everybody, it is Jen Hatmaker.
0:24.3	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast.
0:26.0	I am exceptionally glad that you are here today and I'll tell you why.
0:33.5	It is Christmas, if you noticed.
0:37.9	And there is on one hand, like amazing things everywhere and delight and wonder and joy.
0:46.8	And very much on the other hand, for so many people, there is pain or loss or hard memories
0:56.5	or relationships that failed us in some way or are failing now.
1:03.7	And so the result is that this time of year can be really complicated.
1:09.3	And it has this very strange dichotomy of what we kind of see on the surface and then
1:16.5	what actually is.
1:17.8	It just brings up all kinds of stuff.
1:20.8	You know, normally here on the show, we do a series.
1:23.9	But in this case, I wanted to do one Christmas episode, just one.
1:31.5	This is a one off.
1:32.9	And I wanted, well, I don't know how else to say this, but I wanted just to pastor you in
1:39.1	some way.
1:40.1	And I wanted to shepherd my listeners and to speak life and truth into your experience
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