The Way in a Manger, Part 1 - "The Way Out of a Dead End"
Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever looked up and realized you’ve been heading in the wrong direction? We often lose our way long before we know it—because what seems right at first isn’t always the right way. But the good news of Christmas is this: God didn’t just point the way, he became the way so we could find our way to the path that leads to peace and purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Andy here. Welcome to Your Move, where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. |
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| 0:23.7 | Dot is forward slash give. Thanks for considering. And now back to the show. |
| 0:35.3 | So today, I'd like to begin with a ridiculous question. |
| 0:38.7 | It's ridiculous because I already know the answer is kind of rhetorical, |
| 0:41.3 | so you don't need to answer out loud or raise your hand. |
| 0:43.1 | But you just get us all on the same page, and I know the answer, |
| 0:47.7 | but have you ever lost your way, on your way somewhere? |
| 0:57.9 | Yes, we all have. Sandra's here she would tell you that sometimes I lose a use because usually we lose our way on our way somewhere that we've never |
| 1:01.4 | been before but she would tell you that oftentimes I lose my way on my way to places I've been |
| 1:06.5 | multiple times before maybe you can relate to that now we don't usually't usually lose our way much anymore, driving, because there's not much excuse because of GPS and our phones and everything, but there continue to be places where you can lose your way. Hiking, if you ever hike. In fact, if you hike a lot, you don't lose your way, but if you don't hike a lot and hike a lot and you decide you're going to hike, and one of the most terrifying things in the world is a lose your way hiking. I've done that as well. On parking garages, you can lose your way in a park. Yeah, parking garage. So a lot of you do what I do, and I'm not too embarrassed to tell you. I get my phone and I take a picture of level four, section, whatever. It's red. |
| 1:46.2 | Here's a picture of the cars. |
| 2:06.4 | Next, you know, there's a, you know, because it's easy to get lost in a parking garage. And if you've lost your way in like a big car parking garage, it can be terrifying. The point is, it's, we've all had that experience and we'll continue to have that experience. But here's the interesting thing about all that. The interesting thing is we never know the precise moment when it happens, when we've crossed over or crossed the line from, I know the way to lost my way. You don't know exactly when you're |
| 2:11.7 | lost. You don't know exactly when you go from not lost to lost. And whether it's a parking garage or hiking or whatever it might be, |
| 2:19.8 | the truth is, by the time we realize we've lost our way, |
| 2:23.7 | we've been lost for quite some time, right? |
| 2:26.9 | Anyway, and you can guess where I'm going with this. |
| 2:29.3 | What's true of losing our way when we're going to a physical location, |
| 2:32.4 | what's true of losing our way to a physical location, is true of losing our way when we're going to a physical location, what's true of losing our way on our way |
| 2:34.1 | to a physical location is true of losing our way in life. |
| 2:39.1 | Specifically, we're lost before we know it. |
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