CS 279: 8-29-19: Why We Need God: Thursday
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🗓️ 29 August 2019
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:14.7 | Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, August 29th, 2019. It is also the feast day of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been answering the essential question. Why do we need God? And we've come up with a couple of answers already. We've talked about |
| 0:40.1 | how God loved us into being, and so it's only through a relationship with God that we can |
| 0:45.9 | understand who we are. We also talked about that God alone can save us and that our prayers for |
| 0:52.8 | the conversion of someone else are oftentimes so much more |
| 0:55.9 | important than going and trying to argue the faith with them. |
| 1:00.1 | Yesterday on the feast day of St. Augustine, we reminded ourselves that God alone can offer us peace, |
| 1:07.1 | that we were created for God, and therefore only God can fill that restless part of us. |
| 1:15.6 | Today on the feast day of the beheading of St. John the Baptist, we're talking about another |
| 1:21.8 | reason why we need God. And it's simply this. Jesus Christ is the only true source of strength and courage when we face adversity. |
| 1:36.1 | Jesus Christ is the only true source for strength and courage when we face the hardships |
| 1:42.5 | of this world, especially when we face persecution for our faith. |
| 1:48.9 | Now, throughout history, throughout the entire time that Christianity has existed, people have been |
| 1:56.8 | persecuted for their faith. St. John the Baptist believed that Jesus was the Messiah and he was beheaded by Herod. |
| 2:07.5 | The early Christians, many of them died. |
| 2:10.9 | Many of them were crucified, just as Jesus was crucified. |
| 2:14.0 | St. Paul was beheaded in Rome. |
| 2:17.2 | Many Christians faced horrible torture and death |
| 2:20.3 | because they refused to denounce their faith in Jesus Christ. Now, why? Why would we have such |
| 2:30.2 | strong faith in Jesus? Why would we be willing to be tortured, to be killed out of love for him? |
| 2:39.5 | Well, of course, the reason is because Jesus is God. Because Jesus was willing to do those things for us. |
| 2:48.4 | And because Jesus is always with us. Now this is the reason why Christians can be |
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