It’s Christmas!
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The significance of Christmas extends far beyond nostalgic traditions and family get-togethers. Today, R.C. Sproul reflects on the event that divides all of history: the birth of Jesus Christ, God incarnate.
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| 0:00.0 | Christmas. It's not a legend, it's not a fairy tale, it's not a religious ceremony. |
| 0:06.0 | It is easy for us to forget that at the heart of the Christmas story is the most important |
| 0:14.5 | historical event that has ever transpired on this planet. |
| 0:19.5 | Celebrating the incarnation today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Monday edition of our program, I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:33.0 | We're just a few days away from Christmas, but unfortunately many people are thinking about what really happened 2,000 years ago there in Bethlehem. |
| 0:43.0 | There's of course the busyness and stress of the season, but to many people, stories like Christ birth are simply myth and fable. |
| 0:52.0 | Today on renewing your mind, R.C. Stroll reminds us why we celebrate because Christ is born. |
| 1:01.0 | It was the night before Christmas and all through the house. |
| 1:07.0 | A lot of creature was stirring, not even a mouse. |
| 1:14.0 | Stockings were hung by the chimney with care in the hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. |
| 1:23.0 | I don't think I should try to do any more of that famous poem because I would probably forget some of those lines about the bowl full of jelly and throwing open a sash and all of that. |
| 1:38.0 | But it is a delightful poem that we hear annually during the Christmas season. |
| 1:45.0 | But it is a poem that captures some of the traditions that have surrounded the Christmas holiday. |
| 1:56.0 | Traditions that are fun and children enjoy and so on. |
| 2:02.0 | But we have to remember that this story towards the night before Christmas is not a true picture of history. |
| 2:14.0 | One of the habits that I have is to work on crossword puzzles every day. |
| 2:20.0 | I do at least two of them every day just to get the gray cells moving. |
| 2:26.0 | And one of the common questions that we read in the crosswords that I do is the question that reads, |
| 2:35.0 | fairytale starter, four letter word. |
| 2:41.0 | I think you could guess what that is. |
| 2:44.0 | It is the word once because fairy tales begin traditionally with the phrase once upon a time. |
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