The longer I live, the less I understand Christmas
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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It's hard to imagine how Jesus could have come in a more humble and lowly way than he did. So why did he arrive as a baby in Bethlehem when he did? The more I reflect upon such miraculous grace, the less I understand it. But I don’t have to understand God’s love to experience it.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Christmas Day, December the 25th, |
| 0:08.4 | 2020. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO, |
| 0:15.4 | Dr. Jim Denison. Scientists still don't know why cats purr, why bicycles stay upright when ridden, how animals migrate, or why we sleep, |
| 0:26.5 | and they speculate as to whether the universe is finite or infinite. |
| 0:31.1 | The omniscient Christ of Christmas has no such questions today as can be seen from John 2, 24, John 1630, and John 21, verse 17. |
| 0:42.3 | Speaking of the universe, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently captured stunning images |
| 0:49.3 | of Uranus along with its numerous rings and 14 of its 27 moons. |
| 0:55.0 | The Space Agency also recently captured images of a solar flare |
| 1:00.0 | that disrupted radio signals on Earth. |
| 1:03.0 | Max Lucado noted that every square yard of the Sun is constantly emitting |
| 1:08.0 | 130,000 horsepower, the equivalent of 450-8-cylinder car engines. |
| 1:15.7 | He added, |
| 1:16.6 | Our globe's weight is estimated at 6 sextillion tons. |
| 1:22.0 | That's a 6 with 21 zeros. |
| 1:25.2 | The omnipotent Christ of Christmas made all of that, as revealed in |
| 1:29.8 | Colossians 1, verse 16. Then, in a miracle-defying comprehension, he reduced all his grandeur |
| 1:37.3 | and glory to become a fetus in the womb of a peasant teenage girl. Then, on the first Christmas |
| 1:44.0 | day, he was born as a helpless |
| 1:46.1 | baby into the world he created. 21 centuries later, we still celebrate that first Christmas, |
| 1:53.1 | but the longer I live, the less I understand it. We know from John 316 that Jesus came into the |
| 2:00.2 | world to die for the world, |
| 2:02.0 | for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him |
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