When God spoke aloud after Jesus was baptized, he wasn't speaking just to His Son - he was speaking to the world, so that they could understand that God had come to live among them.

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A follow up to one of our earlier episodes – Episode 96: “Why Are Young People Leaving The Church?” – an actual young person writes about how relationships helped them maintain their connection to the church, and he finds that to be the magical elixir for other young people who get connected to churches. So what does the group think?

There’s conversation about how to be a person who listens to questions, how to handle questions you don’t know the answers to, and how the long history of the church can help you out of a tough situation even if you don’t know much about it.

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When Moses was trapped by the Red Sea, he had only to lift his hand, and God did the rest.

Can we learn to be hand-raisers, too?

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As we begin to explore moments of change in the Bible, we start way back in Exodus, with Moses trapped by the Red Sea.

In Moses’ moment of crisis, it is there where he discovers his faith.

When Moses steps into the water and obeys the orders that God has given him, he realizes that God has provided a way. When we find ourselves in the same spot, when we step forward in faith, God provides.

If we learn anything from this 2020 experience, learn that God is always with us.

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Whenever she's on the road at a hotel, Donyale always makes sure to have the front desk give her a wakeup call. Because as not a morning person, it is difficult for her to arise - never mind to arise and shine.

But the prophet Isaiah has given us a call to action. We have a divine summons to be active in the restoration of God’s kingdom. We are to be walking lamp stands, reflecting the glory of heaven.

"We may, too, have to answer that call in times of darkness. But, friends, we have the confidence that the light within us cannot be overtaken by even the deepest, densest darkness”

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At the end of a terrifically difficult year, Andy thinks of the people in his life who have made a difference in the world, the people who’ve been the Holy Spirit in action. People who went an extra mile to do the right thing, the things that meant so much to the people who received those acts of love.

As he thinks about the story of Christmas, it is people like that who make him see the same love of God that came down all those years ago alive in the world today.

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Marty is worried that we know the Christmas story so well we've forgotten just how big this story really is.

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Andy shares Biblical parallels between the story of Christ’s birth and a story from the Old Testament - and the story of his eventual death.

As he stresses over tough decisions, he reminds us that all that matter is "is Jesus who he says he is?"

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For their last show of 2020, the group looks back on the lessons they learned, the things that they missed the most, and the things they've discovered how to appreciate.

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Someone who thought Christmas would be easier without all the busyness is discovering that this is a much tougher season than they expected. Andy, Marty, and Ben talk about why so many people find Christmas to be hard, how to handle this year's particular difficulties, and the way loss affects the Christmas season.

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