Leap Day: How Clocks and Calendars Shape Us
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Thinking about our relationship to time from a Judeo-Christian understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | Since the downfall of Rovi Wade, secular society's anti-life stance has become |
| 0:07.0 | plainer than ever. |
| 0:08.2 | To make abortion unthinkable today, we must wage a worldview battle. |
| 0:12.3 | To help us do that, Scott Klusendorf's unparalleled book, The Case for Life, has been comprehensively updated and expanded. |
| 0:19.0 | To help believers communicate pro-life truths in a post-Roe world, focusing on fundamental worldview questions |
| 0:25.8 | and specific arguments, both old and new. |
| 0:28.6 | It's the book we need for such a time as this. |
| 0:31.6 | Request your copy this month with a gift of any amount at Colston Center.org |
| 0:36.2 | slash February. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 0:45.8 | unchanging truth. |
| 0:46.8 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 0:50.8 | Throughout the Bible, for example, in Galatians 4-4 or Paul's speech to the men of |
| 0:54.9 | Athens recorded in act 17, God is described as a god of historical precision. |
| 1:00.0 | He's outside of but fully control, of time and place. |
| 1:04.0 | This distinctive of the Judeo-Christian understanding of God stands in sharp contrast to both |
| 1:09.0 | pagan and polytheistic notions about deities and time, and has dramatically shaped human history. |
| 1:15.0 | And today, Leap Day is an appropriate day to think about the human relationship with time. |
| 1:20.5 | One of the earliest examples of time anxiety in history is found in a French song |
| 1:24.4 | Fré Jacques. In it Brother James is rebuked for sleeping and not ringing the bells at |
| 1:30.1 | midnight. This song reflects the seriousness with which the church took those times that had been |
| 1:34.7 | designated for prayer. Following Psalm 119, 164, which says seven times a day I praise you for your |
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