Shouldn't We Protect Our Borders? - Ask BreakPoint
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field questions from BreakPoint commentary. They start their session pointing out common challenges that Christmas is a pagan holiday. Shane provides a few resources he is providing this week from the Colson Center. John builds a structure of thought that stands against the torrent of criticism some face about Christian's hold on the holiday.
Shane then introduces a challenge to a piece related to the United States' recent history in accepting Christian refugees. John provides necessary distinction in defending borders and providing asylum, calling listeners to understand the importance of the cultural moment.
To close John and Shane dig deep into theological thought on determinism. Shane frames the conversation around a comment from a listener related to a recent BreakPoint article. They lead listeners to a place of awe for the mind and love of God.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Shane Morris and I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. |
| 0:09.1 | These questions are based on breakpoint commentaries and podcasts we've aired, short courses that we've held, and articles and columns we've posted lately. |
| 0:16.2 | If you want to submit your question, you can email us at Ask the Colson Center at colson center.org. John, I want to start us off with a question of my own here. It has to do |
| 0:25.6 | with the every square inch thing that we quote all the time from Kuiper. And if it's true that we |
| 0:30.4 | talk about every square inch here at the Colson Center, I think we ought to be talking about |
| 0:33.7 | the best Christmas movies. What qualifies as a Christmas movie, first of all, |
| 0:38.3 | and then what is our favorite Christmas movie? Because there's some debate about some of them |
| 0:42.1 | that are popularly accepted in the Christmas canon. Like, for instance, oh, diehard. And, you know, |
| 0:49.3 | Harry Potter is another one that we're not quite sure whether that fits in it. And I think there's |
| 0:53.3 | one that gets forgotten in this whole debate, which is a very important. It's a crucial decision |
| 0:57.9 | whether Gremlin's is a Christmas movie. What? Grimlins. It takes place at Christmas. The |
| 1:04.0 | original Gizmo Maguire was a Christmas gift. There's Christmas songs. There's Christmas |
| 1:09.3 | decorations throughout the whole thing. |
| 1:12.0 | There's a Christmas soundtrack to it. |
| 1:14.3 | So, you know, it just gets overlooked. |
| 1:16.9 | One of the great moments in all of cinema. |
| 1:19.4 | I actually watched it the other night with my kids for the first time in a long, long time. |
| 1:23.9 | And it's awful. |
| 1:24.9 | It's such a terrible movie at every level. |
| 1:27.0 | My kids were looking at me |
| 1:27.9 | like, what on earth are we doing here? |
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