Morning Show, January 25, 2024: The complex social and political milieu of first-century Israel and how Jesus confronted it.

Pastor Robbie Pruitt of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim, David and the Morning Show audience, details the challenges confronting Jesus in first-century Israel and talks about how the Torah informed the Hebrew educational machine.

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Pastor Robbie Pruitt of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim, David and the Morning Show audience, reminds us that following God’s calling has consequences and real implications for your life, referencing Mark 1:16-20.

Originally published on Broken Road Radio.

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Pastor Robbie Pruitt of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim, David and the Morning Show audience relates the story from 1 Samuel of Hannah, her husband Elkanah and son Samuel, relating the whole as a type or pattern hinting of (foretelling?) the birth of Jesus. (1 Samuel 1-3 and Luke 1-2)

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, in conversation with Jim and David, from Broken Road Radio, reconstitutes the cultural context around the stories of the “Three” Kings, the “Inn” with no vacancies, those stinky shepherds on the Judean hillside and offers some speculation on the family’s flight to Egypt.

This post was originally published on Broken Road Radio on the Morning Show, on December 18, 2013, here: https://brokenroadradio.com/?cat=7&paged=15

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Listen as Preserving Bible Times' Executive Director, The Rev. Robbie Pruitt, preaches on the Nativity of Our Lord on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023.

A Collect for the The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day: “Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born this day of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with you and the same Spirit be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).  

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Join Pastor Robbie Pruitt, from Preserving Bible Times, as he discusses the Love of God, for Advent 4, at Landmark Community Church in Alexandria Virginia, December 12, 2023.

The Love of God 

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” (C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves).

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.” (1 John 4:7 ESV).

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” (1 John 4:16). 

A Collect for The Fourth Sunday in Advent: Annunciation: “Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and as we are sorely hindered by our sins from running the race that is set before us, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019). 

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From the Broken Road Radio archives, Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, completes the story of Elizabeth and Zachariah and moves on to the oft-misconstrued arrival in Bethlehem of Joseph and an obviously pregnant Mary …

From the archives of the Morning Show, from Broken Road Radio, December 19, 2012, Doug Greenwold guides us along the Advent trail with Luke’s account of Zechariah and Elizabeth, surprised parents of John the Immerser (John the Baptist), the story where Christmas really begins and an example of persistent faith in a faithful God.

Episode from Broken Road Radio: https://brokenroadradio.com/?p=1683

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Pastor Robbie Pruitt of Preserving Bible Times explains the liturgical season of Advent which leads to Christmas, along with some of the first century context of the birth narrative.