The Christmas We Needed
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. |
| 0:12.9 | That's what you just heard in Dutch from our friend Marcel. |
| 0:17.2 | Marcel's work in the Netherlands is inspiring and you're going to hear all about it in |
| 0:20.7 | just a moment, but first, a meditation on Christmas. |
| 0:25.6 | This is Sunday and in 1980, Pastor John was preaching a Christmas sermon on Luke 1 verses |
| 0:32.6 | 67 to 79. |
| 0:34.2 | Focus specifically on this idea that in Christ, God has raised up a horn of salvation for |
| 0:41.6 | us. |
| 0:42.6 | That's verse 69. |
| 0:44.9 | That may seem to be an odd and remote way of saying it. |
| 0:48.4 | We don't tend to think of Christmas as the celebration of a horn cut off of a bull, |
| 0:53.7 | but it is. |
| 0:54.7 | And it makes for exactly the Christmas that we needed. |
| 0:59.2 | Here's Pastor John to explain why that is. |
| 1:02.5 | And there's a little footnote here as we begin. |
| 1:05.8 | He just invited his small church over to his house for an open house. |
| 1:10.6 | Keep that in mind. |
| 1:11.6 | Here's Pastor John. |
| 1:14.4 | If someone had given me last Christmas a super duper mouse trap, I would not have been |
| 1:22.8 | very impressed at all. |
| 1:25.3 | We never saw a mouse in six years at our old house. |
| 1:29.2 | If somebody gave me a guaranteed to catch him, super duper mouse trap, this Christmas, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Desiring God, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Desiring God and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.