Danielle Wilson & Brad Jersak - Nativity at the Edges (N187)

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Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It's that time of the year again! So we thought we'd offer up a Christmas themed Devotional for you all. Brad Jersak talks a bit about how the Nativity is understood in the Eastern Church, we reflect on the feminine in the salvation story, and Danielle Wilson shares reflections on her time spent in a refugee camp in Greece. And of course, all this is woven together with music and song by David Blower.

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0:00.0	Christmas greetings, beloved listener, and welcome to our seasonal Nomad Devotional.
0:06.0	In this devotional you'll be hearing from both Brad Jersak and Daniel Wilson and David Blow will be weaving their reflections together with music and song.
0:15.0	If you'd like more devotionals like this, they're available as monthly bonus content for our patrons at patreon.com slash
0:22.6	Nomad podcast. And if you'd like to contribute to Daniel Wilson's work with Global Aid Network,
0:28.7	who is shipping out winter supplies to refugees braving the winter in Greece, you can donate at
0:33.7	give.net slash refugee winter appeal.
0:40.9	From all of us at Nomad, we hope you have a peaceful Christmas and we look forward to connecting with you again in the new year. The
0:57.0	The John chapter 1 verses 1 to 5 and verse 14
1:33.3	In the beginning was the Word
1:37.3	and the Word was with God and the Word was God
1:41.3	He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through
1:47.4	him and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life
1:55.2	and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
2:05.6	And the word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory,
2:11.6	the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
2:18.3	In the Orthodox Church, we often see Christmas as something strange to us, kind of a happy birthday baby Jesus event that feels
2:39.1	kind of shallow and plastic and full of Christmas lights and trinkets. And for Orthodoxy, we prefer to
2:49.5	call it the nativity. And it is about the birth of Jesus, but it's
2:53.6	primarily about the incarnation. And by the incarnation, we mean when the word became flesh and
3:01.3	dwelt among us, when God came to be with us as a human in this world. And so when we think of the nativity of Christ,
3:11.2	it's the beginning of a whole life where God and man become one in this person, Jesus Christ.
3:21.5	So it's much more than just the birth of a baby whose birthday we're celebrating,
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