TOPIC INDEXChurch Seasons (10)

  1. Wednesday, December 28, 2022

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    12/28/22
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the show, we look at the Feast of the Innocents or Childermas.

  2. God is not Dead nor does He Sleep: Christmas Bells in 2020

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    12/25/20
    8 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.

  3. The Curious Tale of the Three Kings and their Belated Christmas Carol

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    12/27/19
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    It is that Christmas carol, the curious “We Three Kings” that we are looking at today in our examination of the origin and meaning of Christmas carols.

  4. Like A Kid On Christmas

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    12/25/19
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    As Christians, we are not cold ascetics, depriving ourselves in the here and hereafter. We are given good things from our heavenly Father in heaven, and even a foretaste of the things to come.

  5. Christmas in August and Handel's Messiah

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    08/21/19
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this Day Handel Begins Composing Messiah, and 5 Things We Can Learn From It

  6. Easter Zombies and the Hope of Resurrection

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    04/23/19
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Temporal resurrections do not save us, but instead direct us to look for life, even in death. Easter zombies and the like direct our attention to the ultimate promise given in Christ, and the implications of this promise for the whole world.

  7. Merry Christmas, Charles the Great!

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    12/24/18
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    The celebration of He who came in humility, who would upend the Kingdoms of this world, was eclipsed by men grasping at the power of each other’s supposed kingdoms.

  8. Savior of the Nations, Christmas for the Heathens!

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    12/06/18
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    The incarnation was universal, irrespective of nationality, race, or even Christmas tradition.

  9. Christ’s Fourth Word From the Cross: “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?”

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    03/30/18
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Jesus was praying a Psalm. Psalm 22 to be precise, and both the Gospels of Matthew and Mark relay the story to us of Jesus praying that Psalm on the cross at the hour of His death.

  10. Death and Christmas

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    12/24/14
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    I know it’s a rite of pious holiday passage to complain about the commercialization of Christmas and to remind everyone to keep the “Christ” in Christmas. And don’t forget the secular “war on Christmas." Whatever.