CHRISTMAS: A Time of Turbulence [The Ezra Institute Podcast for Cultural Reformation]
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Joe Boot and Pastor Nate Wright talk about the turbulence of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Baby Jesus, the meek and mild babe in a manager, shook the entire fabric of the world, troubling many, filling others with wrath and fear, but causing many to come from afar to prostrate themselves before him in worshipful service. What's your response to the lowborn King of Kings? May it be the way of wisdom: worship and adoration.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Mission of God AD
00:25 Opening
00:36 Intro
01:05 Welcome
02:29 Christmas Gift - Mission of God: 10th Anniversary Edition
03:23 Conference ADs
05:18 Scripture Reading | Matthew 2:1-16
07:23 Sanitizing the Christmas Story
08:51 Trouble in Jerusalem: The Menacing Arrival of the Magi
12:23 Herod, the Great: The Tyrannical Imposter King of the Jews
19:05 Signs in the Skies
26:46 The Magi & the Messiah
32:35 The True King of the Jews, the Ruler of the Kings of the Earth
35:45 Herod's Relevant Response to Jesus and Ours
43:20 Christmas: A Disturbance in the Force
44:26 Conclusion
45:50 Outro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr. Joe Boot, founder and president of the Esri Institute in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. |
| 0:08.0 | And I want to invite you to the Mission of God conference in your area. |
| 0:13.0 | Come and be equipped to think Christianly about every area of life and engage culture to the glory of God. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome back to the podcast for Cultural Reformation. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Pastor Nate Wright. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm joined by Dr. Joe Boot. |
| 0:31.5 | And today we're going to be talking about Christmas and Herod's perspective in the |
| 0:35.4 | Christmas story. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah. and Herod's perspective in the Christmas story. Welcome back to the podcast for Cultural Reformation, where we work to engage culture with a distinctly Christian worldview and with the claims of Christ, teaching, Christian philosophy, cultural apologetics, and a biblical worldview through our digital and in-person training. You're listening to one of our digital resources, the podcast for Cultural Reformation, |
| 1:17.1 | where I'm joined once again by Dr. Joe Boot. How are you doing today, Joe? |
| 1:21.7 | Doing very well, Nate. Looking forward to the coming festivities. I don't know about you, |
| 1:27.0 | but I'm ready for a few days off |
| 1:29.5 | after the year we've had as a ministry. So, you know, trying to plow through the work |
| 1:37.8 | so that one can have a little bit of rest over this time of feasting and celebration. |
| 1:45.9 | Yeah, that's always sort of my perspective is December can be a really busy month. |
| 1:49.9 | Obviously, we generally do our Mission of God conferences in Canada at the end of November, |
| 1:54.8 | early December, and then it shifts to a lot of church stuff and we do a lot of outreach, |
| 1:59.7 | obviously Christmas Eve service, Christmas |
| 2:01.5 | day service. And then I just honestly kind of hibernate for about two weeks where I just get to hang |
| 2:07.2 | out with my kids and play a lot of board games and play in the snow if it'll come. Most of our snow |
| 2:12.0 | up here in Canada has melted already. But I do the same thing. Kind of plow through, put your head down, get the work done. And it's good and it's joyful work, but it's a lot of busy. |
| 2:19.7 | And then you get to spend some time with family and friends over the holidays. |
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