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Breakpoint

Oxford Students' Evening of Carols

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Every year, the Christian students at Oxford University put on an evening of carols, singing hymns like "Oh Holy Night" and "Joy to the World," followed by a guest speaker who unpacks the hope of Advent.

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With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.8

Every year, the Christian students at Oxford University put on an evening of carols singing

0:08.8

hymns like, oh holy night, and joy to the world, followed by a guest speaker who unpacks

0:13.6

the hope of Advent.

0:15.1

Last year, a polygist Christy Mayor powerfully articulated the implications of the season,

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with this, quote, there's nothing more relevant than hearing the voice of someone who loves

0:23.4

you saying come home.

0:25.5

Only when that's someone is not a fringe figure in the drama of the cosmos, but according

0:30.1

to the Christian faith is the very source of reality itself.

0:33.6

Look, Christmas is a unique opportunity to share the riches of Christ with the world starving

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for meaning, truth, and direction.

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What other time of year are such truths about Christ shared to widely across our culture

0:44.5

on radio, on television, and stores, and homes?

0:47.6

And like these Oxford students, we can have confidence that as the Apostle John declared,

0:52.0

the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

0:55.8

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

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