S3:237 John 1:1-18
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Advent! It's never too late to start reading your Bible. Lauren Atkinson shares how today's passage bridges the gap from the Old Testament to the New Testament and then further in our lives today.
Additional Scripture referenced in today's episode:
Genesis 1-2, creation account
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, grownups. |
| 0:02.3 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:04.0 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:05.5 | We're going to learn about the Joy to Jerry Judy Jr. Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | It's out now. |
| 0:10.1 | You can find the link in today's episode, description. |
| 0:14.3 | So you can listen with your kids and talk to them about the Bible. |
| 0:19.9 | All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never |
| 0:25.2 | too late to start, and we're in this together. This is the Join the Journey podcast. |
| 0:32.4 | Thanks for joining. I'm Lauren Atkinson on the Join the Journey staff team and today is the first day of Advent. |
| 0:40.5 | We have wrapped up reading through the Psalms together and now we are preparing our hearts for |
| 0:45.9 | Christmas. And if you're new, now is a great time to jump into the Join the Journey reading |
| 0:51.5 | plan and read through our Advent series together. |
| 0:55.1 | This year's Advent reading plan is going through a variety of passages in the Old Testament |
| 1:00.5 | and the New Testament that all point to the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the king who came to live a perfect |
| 1:07.1 | life, die for our sin, and rose again victoriously. So we could be forgiven and have a |
| 1:12.9 | relationship with God. So today is our first day of Advent and we will be studying John 1, |
| 1:18.6 | specifically verses 1 through 18. This is one of my favorite passages in the whole Bible, |
| 1:25.0 | because what it does is bridge the gap from the Old Testament to the |
| 1:29.6 | New Testament and then further into our lives today. And in this passage, we're going to see themes |
| 1:35.9 | from all over the Old Testament, from the creation account in Genesis 1 through 3 to God |
| 1:41.5 | giving the law through Moses and Exodus 24, to the instructions for the |
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