TS&TT: Have Yourself a Very Metaphysical Christmas

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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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