WOF 156: The Advent Revolution

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Is the season of Advent just a cozy, sentimental period before Christmas? Or is it a time of spiritual revolution? Bishop Barron discusses this important period and shares some of his Advent recommendations. A listener asks how to make sense of slavery in the Bible.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot the host and the content director
0:10.5	here at Word on Fire and joining me as we get ready to start the great season of Advent
0:15.8	is Bishop Baron. Bishop Baron, good to be with you.
0:18.6	Hey Brandon, always good to be with you and again I'm happy with this scenario now we
0:22.5	can see each other as well as hear each other across the country.
0:25.3	It's pretty cool, pretty amazing that from Florida to California it's crystal clear,
0:29.5	audio and video. Yeah, it is.
0:32.1	Well, we're recording this just a few days before Advent, this episode will go live right
0:36.6	after Advent, but just a couple days ago you celebrated your birthday and you had a
0:41.7	big birthday party there out in Santa Barbara. Tell us about that.
0:44.8	I was lovely. I was down in LA for some meetings the first part of the day. Then I came
0:50.6	back up here. I just had a great little gathering with mostly my staff people up here and
0:55.8	we just had a lovely dinner and exchanged some presents and it was delightful. I don't
1:01.8	like getting older though. I must say I like my birthday less and less as I get older.
1:07.2	I saw you had a little cake with a bunch of candles and you got all of them on the first
1:10.5	blow, which is always really good. Yeah, more or less, more or less.
1:15.0	Well listen, again, as I mentioned, we're just starting the great season of Advent. I
1:19.4	guess this year starting on December 2nd, we've got it 23 days here until Christmas and
1:24.8	so that's what I wanted to focus on during this episode. You've done a lot of on Advent
1:29.4	themes over the years, but we haven't done a podcast on it. So maybe we start off with
1:35.2	this bishop. What is Advent and why should Christians embrace this season?
1:40.4	Well, I say, you know, it's the Adventist, so the coming of the Lord. And so think of
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