Christmas Special: Back to Basics

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Christmas has become a lot of things, but in this one-on-one with Brian, he takes us back to the basics of a (not so) silent night in Bethlehem. This new Aggressive Life Christmas tradition is meant to inspire and reorient your holiday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:08.3	It's the week right now of Christmas.
0:11.7	And since I got you, I want to do something that gets lost in the hustle and bustle of the season.
0:17.3	I want us to slow down and remember.
0:25.3	Remember what the season. I want us to slow down and remember. Remember what the season is for, as the old cheesy bumper sticker says, Jesus is the reason for the season. As much as I really don't like
0:32.9	cheesy religiousy sayings, let alone on a bumper sticker. Hey, you want to be aggressive?
0:38.0	Take your freaking religious bumper stickers off. That's kind of aggression I'd like to see.
0:41.4	Anyway, I digress. But, you know, I've really gone from this place of
0:46.8	bemoaning some of the trite religiosity frayings, sayings that are said to seeing how far our culture has come.
0:57.5	I read a article in New York Times about the four best new released Christmas albums you might
1:03.6	want to check out. So I went out and I got them on Spotify and I was checking out. The first
1:07.4	one I started off with was Kelly Clarkson. Kelly Clarkson. I like Kelly Clarkson. Remember that from I started off with was Kelly Clarkson.
1:11.6	Kelly Clarkson.
1:13.0	I like Kelly Clarkson.
1:14.1	Remember that from a 40-year-version?
1:16.8	Kelly Clarkson, she's really good woman.
1:18.8	And she's got an amazing voice.
1:20.1	And I like her album.
1:21.2	There's just one thing about it.
1:23.5	There's nothing Christmas about it.
1:24.9	Like, nothing.
1:27.2	There's nothing Christmas about it. Unless Christmas is just defined as,
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