TOPIC INDEXChristmas (29)

  1. With Jesus, There's Always Room for Us

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    12/17/19
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    At Christmas, we hear the story of our salvation, but it’s not pretty.

  2. Christmas is About Jesus, So Get Over It

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    12/12/19
    5 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    No matter what is done to undermine Christmas, the holiday won't go away. Two thousand years of persecution from outside (and from within) the Church hasn't ended Christmas.

  3. Jesus Comes to Claim All of Us

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    12/06/19
    6 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Jesus isn't just "the reason for the season." He's the reason we don't have to cross off "spiritually bankrupt," "mentally compromised," and "physically vulnerable" from our Christmas list.

  4. The Good News That We're Not Good Enough

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    12/05/19
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Our actions, moral choices, appearance, definitions of family and friendship are all defined by how we see ourselves in relation to the question, "Am I good enough?"

  5. 39: The Obstinate Toy Soldiers - C.S. Lewis

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    01/09/19
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ thoughts on God being born a man.

  6. 38: "Martin Luther’s Christmas Book," p. 30-31

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    01/02/19
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel! Gillespie and Riley return this week with another episode dedicated to Martin Luther's Christmas sermon. This time, they dig into the underlying brutality of the Christmas Gospel, Mary's humiliation, and Joseph's dilemma.

  7. Whose Lord and Savior Is He?

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    12/26/18
    11 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    He who created the heavens and the earth is adored by angels, shepherds, magi, and cows.

  8. Why Jesus Isn’t Santa

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    12/25/18
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Immanuel is born to rescue all of us weak-hearted, cowardly, self-deceiving children of this world. He comes to set us free in the liberation of His death.

  9. 37: "Martin Luther’s Christmas Book," p. 28-29

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    12/25/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross! In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read from a Christmas sermon by their favorite heretic, Martin Luther. They discuss Mary's example of how God makes theologians of the cross through suffering, oppression, weakness, and hopelessness.

  10. 36: "Shipwrecked At The Stable" by Brennan Manning pt. 2

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    12/19/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Planking with Brennan Manning... Gillespie and Riley follow up their reading of Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable" by discussing why Roman Catholic theology, as Manning presents it, is so appealing to Protestants.

  11. Receive The Gifts, But Don't Think It's Because God Is Santa Claus

    book
    12/13/18
    15 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    It's hard wired into our brain. We can't help ourselves.

  12. 35: "Shipwrecked At The Stable" by Brennan Manning

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    12/12/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Planking with Brennan Manning... This week, Gillespie and Riley dive into Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable," and they go deep into Manning's expression of Roman Catholic theology.
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