The Messy Side of Christmas | Advent | Matthew 2:13-23

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What if Christmas doesn't feel like the most wonderful time of the year? What if you don't feel the peace on earth? What if Christmas just doesn't feel like Christmas? In today's episode, Keith shares the messiness of the very first Christmas and how it brings hope to your Christmas. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Matthew 2:13-23 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:15.6	Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It's gifts, lights, trees, and parties and carols like Joy to the World. Or is it? I mean what
0:22.3	if you have an empty chair at your Christmas dinner because of a ruptured relationship?
0:26.2	What if this is the first Christmas since someone you loved died? What if this marks another Christmas unable to have children? What if another Christmas party
0:35.6	means she will come home drunk again? What if you have to divide the kids on
0:39.6	Christmas so they spend their holidays schlepping between parents' houses. Is Christmas really the most
0:45.1	wonderful time of the year? Maybe we have sentimentalized Christmas and robbed it of its power
0:50.0	in our life. If you think Christianity is too pie in the sky, if you think it
0:55.0	paints too rosy of a picture of life, if it's too simplistic for a complex world,
0:59.6	if you think Christianity fails to wrestle with the hardest questions we are confronted with,
1:04.9	that's a good sign you don't know much about the Bible. The Bible is unflinchingly honest
1:10.3	about the brokenness of us and the world.
1:14.2	We see the brokenness in the story
1:15.8	the event surrounding Christmas.
1:17.8	It's far from idyllic.
1:20.0	After the Magi had left worshiping Jesus, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream.
1:27.2	And he says, Get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.
1:31.6	Stay there until I tell you. for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.
1:36.0	God sends an angel to warn Joseph and Mary that murderous King Herod is determined to kill Jesus before he can become a real threat to his power.
1:46.0	You don't see this story on many Christmas cards or reenacted in Christmas plays.
1:50.5	This is the messy side of Christmas. And that's comforting because my life is messy too
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