Joy | Advent E1

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Are you happy? Many of us aren't. Yet Martin Luther once said "a Christian should be happy." And Rick Howe argued that "the pursuit of joy is a moral obligation." In a world filled with sorrow and grief, John Mark shows us how the coming of Jesus gives us a path to pursue joy and how we can hold it in tandem with the pain of our lives.

Key Scripture Passages: Luke 2v1-20

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing The Way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:11.0	as a part of an Advent series. Please turn your Bibles to Luke Chapter 2 as we continue our teaching series on Advent.
0:26.9	Luke Chapter 2. Father, son, and Holy Spirit, thank you for your presence here, for your pleasure that you see
0:40.6	us through the kinds of creatures who have the capacity to one day rule in the kingdom under Jesus.
0:58.0	God, that future is bright and it is glorious. We thank you that our hope, God, goes far beyond our
1:07.9	nation, far beyond that many factors of the last year into you Jesus and your return and this
1:15.2	Christmas we look not just back to your coming but forward to your second
1:20.0	coming and we pray in the meantime,
1:23.0	Holy Spirit, come, fill and flood our mind and our body itself
1:29.0	with your truth and your spirit.
1:32.2	Amen.
1:33.0	Christian Wyman, the celebrated poet and professor of literature from Yale and Christian intellectual,
1:39.0	in his most recent book Joy, which is a collection of poetry and writings on the subject matter of
1:44.8	joy, opens his book with a maxim that is well used by artist the world over, Light
1:52.0	Rights White. Meaning, if you're not familiar with that maxim, the world
1:53.4	meaning if you're not familiar with that maxim
1:55.4	if you're a poet or a novelist or a fine art painter
1:59.2	and you sit down to a blank page or a canvas and all is light in your world meaning all as well the
2:05.8	odds are that you stare at a blank page that you have nothing to say or nothing to paint
2:10.7	you have no inspiration art so the goes, is born out of inner turmoil
2:15.6	as you kind of wrestle with the demons
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