The Heart of Christmas with Christina Hanegraaff
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: the importance of Christians preparing their hearts to celebrate Christmas (1:00); the unique significance of the Incarnation (3:00); clarifying issues surrounding the Atonement (8:00); how the Incarnation reveals our hope of Resurrection (10:30); how Hank’s parents' practice of daily devotionals inspired him with an appreciation for studying Scripture (19:00); the importance of preparing ourselves to celebrate Christ and how traditions can impact that preparation (23:00); remembering Christmas as a time not to receive but to give with a grateful heart to meet the needs of others (26:30); a shared memory of ministering to the poor and the downtrodden with humility and respect for what they can teach us (32:00); exploring what it really means that we are made in the image of God (38:30); Hank discusses the significance of his favorite hymn, When Peace, Like a River (48:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged, a podcast that brings to you some of the most inspiring, |
| 0:29.6 | informative and interesting people on the planet. |
| 0:33.6 | And today we're here to interview my dad about a book that he wrote. |
| 0:37.7 | When did you write this book? |
| 0:39.4 | Don't ask me, I'm going to have to look at it. |
| 0:42.3 | It's been a while ago. |
| 0:43.4 | Let me see. |
| 0:44.1 | I wrote this in 2009. |
| 0:45.7 | At least it was first published, I think, in 2009. |
| 0:47.7 | So this book is called The Heart of Christmas, and it's a book that we're going to focus on in December during the holiday season to kind of get to know more about why Christmas is important. |
| 1:00.3 | So can you tell us a little bit about this book? |
| 1:02.5 | What is this book? |
| 1:03.3 | What is it about? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, it's actually 25 days as a devotional to the heart of Christmas. |
| 1:11.2 | And my idea is that, you know, after Thanksgiving, everybody starts preparing for Christmas. |
| 1:20.0 | You go into stores and they're merchandising for Christmas. |
| 1:24.7 | You know, people are starting to look for Christmas trees. |
| 1:29.2 | They're buying gifts. They're thinking about Christmas. You know, people are starting to look for Christmas trees. They're buying gifts. |
| 1:35.7 | They're thinking about Christmas. And so I thought, while people are in that mode, |
| 1:49.7 | why not start a devotional, a 25-day devotional to prepare people's hearts for Christmas. Just as people are preparing for Christmas in a commercial way, let's prepare for Christmas in a Christian way. And that is to have |
| 1:57.8 | devotionals that lead you to the heart of Christmas. Obviously, a Christmas is about |
| 2:04.0 | incarnation. You can't imagine anything more significant than God taking on human flesh, incarnate, |
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