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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: Have Yourself a Very Metaphysical Christmas

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore talk about having a metaphysical, objective, transcendent Christmas - one with a real God, who invades a real heaven & a real earth with real time & real space. How do we push back against our tendency to subjectivize Christmas? REGISTER NOW: 2021 National Founders Conference | https://founders.org/2021conference/ Christmas SALE: https://press.founders.org/shop Strong and Courageous: Following Jesus Amid the Rise of America's New Religion | https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/ The Institute of Public Theology: instituteofpublictheology.org WATCH NOW: Founders Cinedoc: By What Standard? | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHfa0s1XLM Watch Episode 2 of #WieldTheSword | https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Sword & The Trowel: https://founders.org/the-sword-the-trowel/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Sword and the Trowel, a podcast of Founders Ministries.

0:03.6

Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches.

0:07.0

I'm Jared Longshore.

0:07.8

I'm Tom Askell.

0:09.0

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

0:12.9

A metaphysical Christmas.

0:14.7

Have yourself a metaphysical Christmas.

0:16.4

A real one.

0:18.2

Using these big words, Tom.

0:18.2

A real one.

0:19.1

Using these big words.

0:19.2

It's going to be fun. We're going to talk about having yourself a metaphysical Christmas, maybe an objective

0:24.1

Christmas, transcendent Christmas.

0:26.9

Yeah, one with a real God who invades a real heaven and earth with real time and real space.

0:33.7

That's right.

0:34.1

And so we'll be rejecting that emotivism that so often marks the Christmas time.

0:39.0

And we'll be... The meaning of Christmas is in your heart. Oh, yes. It's in Bethlehem.

0:45.6

So we're so glad that you listen to The Sword and the Trial today. Thank you to all of our listeners.

0:50.2

Man, we're just so grateful. So many people tap into this. Think of all the things they could be doing.

0:54.7

I know.

0:55.3

I know. Maybe they're riding in the car.

0:56.7

Mowing the yard with your piece in?

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