Cold-Case Christianity 14 Dec
This Christmas season, Luke 2 will probably be the most-read passage of Scripture. It tells of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, the angels’ announcement to the shepherds in the fields, the shepherds’ visit to the stable, and even Jesus’ childhood. This chapter of the New Testament tells the age-old Christmas story, but it’s also extremely relevant to our lives today in practical ways.
Here are five takeaways from Luke 2 that we can apply to our lives today:
Even Jesus Wasn’t above Simple Circumstances
When you think of kings, you think of crowns and thrones and palaces.not stables full of smelly farm animals and a feeding trough as a bed for a newborn baby. Yet Jesus, King of Kings though He is, came into the world in a remarkably simple, lowly, and unassuming way. His birth was the furthest thing from a King’s welcome. Few of us are acquainted with the ways of royalty, and it’s
a zealot is a technical term for a group of revolutionaries who are really strongly opposed to roman occupation. if judas was one of these revolutionaries, maybe he got frustrated jesus wasn t taking enough action, being public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. maybe he handed over jesus in the hope that creating a confrontation between jesus and the romans would be the spark that would cause jesus to begin the events that would topple the roman empire. these political intrigues form the backdrop to one of the most celebrated scenes of jesus life: the last supper. this place is called the cenaculum. it comes from the latin word [ speaking in foreign language ] cena, for dinner, and this is the traditional site where the last supper took place.
was a zealot. a zealot is a technical term for a group of revolutionaries who are really strongly opposed to roman occupation. if judas was one of these revolutionaries, maybe he got frustrated jesus wasn t taking enough action in public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. maybe he handed over jesus in the hopes that creating a confrontation between jesus and the romans would be the spark that would cause jesus to begin the events that would topple the roman empire. these political intrigues form the backdrop to one of the most celebrated scenes of jesus s life, the last supper. this place is called the cenaculum. it comes from cena, the latin word for dinner. and this is the traditional site
catholics and main line protestants and evangelicals to come together. we hent and met john paul ii in 81. he said john paul ii called me a brother. that was a big deal and he got a lot of pushback from his southern baptist colleagues. so he was an amazing man. but he, above all, preached the gospel of jesus christ. that jesus wasn t just a good guy, that he came as a messiah and lord and savior and redeemer. that s hard to talk about for a lot of people. we ve run out of time. i m going to have you come back because we need to go over this poll because catholics are talking about climate change is a bigger problem than christian persecution in the world. thanks. do you remember this guy from the campaign trail, a lifelong demeanor and forklift driver who never voted republican until president trump. we lost our steel mills in 1977. i ve been waiting and we ve been
cynicism, total complete skepticism in america about the things that do enthrall us and for serious reasons. but americans are kind of thinking another way. they expect very it will. if they get a good economy, they ll be happy to some serious degree. so, peggy, that leads, though, to the next question. i think an incredibly depressing week for people that have been viewing evangelical leaders who, when asked about donald trump s alleged affair with a foreign star said, well one, said, well, we ll give him a mulligan. the other tried to justify that i saw, i think jerry falwell, jr., said, well, you know what? jesus wasn t really bothered with how the romans were running things, they were allowed to go after barbarians.