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Bridgetown Audio Podcast

First Light: Advent 2025 - Innkeeper (Joy)

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Luke 2v1–12 with Tyler Staton In the third week of Advent, we return to the story of Jesus’ birth and consider the difference between sentiment and the joy announced by the angels. Walking through Luke 2, this teaching explores how joy enters real human chaos through costly hospitality and invites us to make room for Jesus and for one another right where we are.   bridgetown.church/teaching

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In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

0:17.0

This was the first census that took place while Quinarius was governor of Syria. And everyone

0:22.5

went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town to Nazareth and Galilee to

0:29.1

Judea, to Bethlehem, the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there

0:35.2

to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was

0:39.3

expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave

0:45.8

birth to her firstborn a son. She wrapped them in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there

0:52.1

was no guest room available for them.

0:59.1

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.

1:04.6

An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

1:06.8

But the angel said to them, do not be afraid.

1:10.3

I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all people.

1:13.7

Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you.

1:14.7

He is the Messiah.

1:17.6

The Lord, this will be assigned to you.

1:20.8

You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.

1:23.3

This is the word of the Lord.

1:24.8

Thanks, be, God.

1:39.5

Love actually became a holiday mainstay after its wildly popular debut in 2003.

1:46.0

If you're not familiar, this is a rom-com tracing a number of different stories set in England and starring Hugh Grant.

1:47.0

It's a modern-day Christmas classic.

1:49.0

There's this one particularly crude scene in it, though.

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