Christmas

Podcast: Should We Expose Santa and the Easter Bunny as Frauds to Our Kids?

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Greg pulls back the curtain on holiday fraud in this disenchanting roller coaster of an episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0297.mp3

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Myth Become History

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The Gospel of John tells of the coming of Jesus in an unusual way. John writes: In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Everything came…

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Christmas Greetings From ReKnew

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On behalf of the ReKnew team, we wish you all a safe and blessed Christmas. And for those of you who are hurting this Christmas, we wish you peace and comfort. Painting by Daniel Bonnell

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Jesus, the Light that Blesses

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God spoke a promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 that his descendants would be a great nation and that all of the nations would be blessed through him. In this sermon clip, Greg discusses how Jesus…

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God Became a Zygote

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Has the Christmas story become so familiar that you’ve lost any sense of how spectacular it is? The great creator of the universe became a microscopic zygote. The all-powerful being who spoke the stars into existence came…

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Myth Became Reality

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If we open our hearts to it, there’s something about the Christmas story of God becoming one of us in order to give his life to save us that resonates with us in the core…

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The Longing of Advent

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The Advent season is a time of anticipating the coming of God, in Christ, a time of turning our imagination toward the revelation of God’s love for us. This after all is the deepest longing…

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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

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This is the first week of Advent, the season where we anticipate the coming of Christ. It’s a time to hear and enter into the story of how Jesus came out of love to give…

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Merry Christmas from ReKnew

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Bless you all as you celebrate the birth of Jesus today. Here’s another song by Eustace the Dragon to celebrate. Ten Grinches, plus two by Eustace the Dragon Said the night wind to the little…

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The Cross in the Manger, Part 2

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While some shepherds were tending their flock, an angel appeared to them announcing “good news that will cause great joy for all the people,” for it news about “a Savior…the Messiah, the Lord” (Lk 2:10-11)….

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The Cross in the Manger

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There has been a strand within the Western theological tradition—one that is especially prevalent in contemporary American Evangelicalism—that construes the significance of the cross in strictly soteriological terms. The cross is central, in this view,…

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Christmas Music from Eustace the Dragon

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Our friends Eustace the Dragon just released a second Christmas EP that we wanted to share with you. You can find the latest Christmas EP here, and you can find last year’s EP here. Merry Christmas…

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Lighten Up: The Best Christmas Video Ever

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If you want to find out more about our good friends the Livesay family and their ministry in Haiti, you can find them here. Glory to God in the highest. Amen.

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The Deepest Reality of Christmas

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Christmas is about so much more than what our culture has made it to be. It’s about the unraveling and reversing of the curse. It’s about the coming of God to us in love and…

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Christmas is Subversive…

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…at least the first Christmas was. When Jesus came it was about the birth of a subversive ruler who brought a subversive kingdom. He is a king that came to introduce a reign that would overthrow…

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Don’t Be a Functional Atheist at Christmas

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All of us raised in Western culture have been strongly conditioned by what is called a secular worldview. The word secular comes from the Latin saeculum, meaning “the present world.” A secular worldview, therefore, is…

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Lighten Up: My Favorite!

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He always gives the best gifts.

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Lighten Up: And So It Began

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The Incarnation as an Example of Cross-Cultural Love

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Beautiful Faces of Palestine via Compfight Christena Cleveland wrote an excellent piece about the radical cross-cultural nature of the incarnation.  I’ve never thought of it quite this way before, but the incarnation is the most…

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Lighten Up: Christmas Gift Suggestion

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Finally, a toy that will help kids learn about the true character of God and the type of assault weapon he favors. *sarcasm* (Thanks to Robert Martin and Benjamin L. Corey for the heads up.)

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