Is Alexa the new Santa? Experiencing the power of Christmas
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 23, 2019
Children are ordering presents through Alexa; a generation gap is exposed at Christmas; and the pope warns that we are living in a post-Christian culture. Today's podcast explores these stories and invites us to experience the omnipotence of Christ in ways that demonstrate his relevance to our world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | Here's a sign of the times. |
| 0:21.7 | Children are asking Alexa to bring them presents their parents didn't order. |
| 0:26.2 | A five-year-old boy ordered a Tesla. |
| 0:28.8 | Fortunately for his family, Amazon delivered Tesla-branded running pants rather than a car. |
| 0:34.7 | A mother says her four-year-old learned how to use her iPad to shop on Amazon, |
| 0:39.7 | and boxes and boxes arrived. He was jumping up and down with excitement that he had ordered all this |
| 0:45.5 | stuff. Here's a more ominous sign of the Times. The Wall Street Journal is reporting on |
| 0:51.2 | the generation gap over church at Christmas. The subheading explains, |
| 0:56.0 | Strained Surface when millennial children who rarely attend religious services visit baby boomer |
| 1:02.0 | parents who do. The article cites report that 52% of boomers see Christmas as a religious holiday, |
| 1:09.1 | compared to 32% of millennials. |
| 1:11.9 | The last statistic explains Pope Francis's statement to Vatican officials that, |
| 1:16.9 | we are no longer under a Christian regime because the faith, especially in Europe, but also |
| 1:22.5 | in much of the West, no longer constitutes an obvious premise of common life. |
| 1:30.3 | On the contrary, it is even often denied, derided, marginalized, and ridiculed. |
| 1:34.3 | This Christmas week, we're going to see what Christmas can teach a post-Christian culture |
| 1:41.3 | about Christ. Today, we'll learn about his power and discover why |
| 1:46.6 | such omnipotence is still so relevant to us. Colossians 115 states that the Christ of Christmas |
| 1:53.7 | is the image of the invisible God. This is an astounding fact. St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle is famous as the burial place of Henry VIII, |
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