What's the Difference Between Advent and Christmas?

Core Christianity

Aaron Simon

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Episode 1372 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.

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Questions in this Episode

1. How can I explain to my friends that I am trusting God with my disability?

2. Am I condemned to hell if I'm not going to church?

3. Why does the church separate advent and Christmas?

4. What should I do if I can't find a church with faithful preaching?

5. Am I able to participate in communion in a Lutheran church?

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0:00.0	What's the difference between Advent and Christmas?
0:08.9	That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.
0:13.8	Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program
0:18.0	where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian
0:21.4	life every day. You can call us right now with your question. Here's our phone number, 8333-the-core.
0:28.1	That's 1-833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on our social media sites, and of course you
0:36.1	can always email us at
0:37.6	Questions at CoreChristianity.com. And I should mention, for those of you listening on the
0:43.6	radio, not on YouTube right now, Adriel has a Christmas tree with him in the studio, his little
0:48.6	buddy. Yeah. You know, here's the thing, though, Bill, is it's not a real tree. And I don't know
0:53.4	about you, but I'm in favor of the real trees because they got the smell and all that. But this is, I mean, I think it'll do for our studio. Now, I know that you recently just cut down a tree. Is that right? Is that something they allow you to do in Minnesota? We can't do that in San Diego. At a Christmas tree farm, so it was official.
1:11.4	Yes, it was legal.
1:12.6	But we went out last weekend and we searched for the perfect tree.
1:16.9	And my wife has specific requirements on her trees.
1:20.2	It has to be just high enough to where it barely touches the ceiling.
1:23.7	And we have 10 foot ceilings to let you know.
1:25.8	Okay.
1:26.5	And it has to be the perfect shape and then
1:28.0	no brown uh needles so i'm traipsing through the christmas tree farm looking for the perfect tree for
1:34.0	her and finally after two hours we found it nice well i'm glad to hear that bill and uh merry
1:40.9	christmas to all of you listen i mean as we as we get as we get closer, hopefully, we should take a, we should, we should do one of those polls, Bill, where it's like, you know, real tree or fake tree. Because I feel like there's a huge debate going on right now. I keep trying to convince people back to the old ways of getting a real tree. But more and more people are opt in for the plastic ones.
2:02.1	I know it, man, pretty soon it will be an AI tree, and then I'm really scared of what's going
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