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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Passion City Church, D.C. podcast. To learn more about Passion City Church, |
| 0:07.0 | including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., visit us online at PassionCitychurch.com. |
| 0:13.4 | Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, when I graduated from college, my little sister and I went to Italy. |
| 0:23.6 | And I remember we went to the Uffizi, a museum that's in Florence. |
| 0:27.6 | And it houses some of the greatest Renaissance art in Italy, second only probably to the Vatican. |
| 0:34.6 | But I was like maybe some of you, I didn't really appreciate Renaissance |
| 0:39.3 | art as a 22-year-old. And so I remember after we had been to several museums on this trip, |
| 0:45.7 | we had no tour guide, no audio guide. It just all started to look the same to me. It's a lot of |
| 0:51.3 | Virgin Mary, a lot of baby Jesus, and a lot of statues of Greek |
| 0:55.6 | people in various states of undress. And so by the time we got to the Euphizi, it was just kind of like |
| 1:00.4 | Mary, Jesus, naked guy, just kind of walking through, I wasn't really paying attention. |
| 1:05.0 | Until I remember, there was one time I turned a corner and I was arrested in front of this one painting. |
| 1:13.6 | And it was done by the great Michelangelo in a style very different from the day. |
| 1:18.8 | He used vibrant colors. |
| 1:20.8 | And it was of Mary and baby Jesus, but it was so different from the others. |
| 1:25.0 | It was them like at a picnic. |
| 1:27.2 | They were on a field and the baby was climbing up over the others. It was them like at a picnic. They were on a field, |
| 1:28.3 | and the baby was climbing up over her shoulder, |
| 1:31.8 | and all the little details, it looked so real. |
| 1:36.3 | It was like you could almost, if you waited, see the move. |
| 1:40.2 | That if you leaned in, you could hear their conversation. |
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